Prayer “Bank Account”

The Power of Prayer  “Bank Account”   –do you know how this works? Let me tell you my story.

In the 1940’s  I was placed in an Orphanage, and this was to be for just a short time.  My mother was expecting twins  – she was only a small-bone woman – and each of the twins when born, weigh in at 8 1/2 pounds. My father was working at the “POST Office”  and was receiving a small pension from when he was the the Arny.

After the twins were born,  my mother’s teeth took a real hit.  When a woman does not get the proper nutrition and correct vitamins, the  babies will take from the mother’s system  – everything they need.  So, the “Catholic Charities” organization that placed us in their  “Orphanage”  – told my mother that she needed to have her  teeth fixed before we were to go home with her.

The next hold-up in our returning home to be with our parents,  was that  “CC” had time to garnish my dad’s pay for  our care in the orphanage.  So, he quits a perfectly good government job.  That did not stop “CC”  – they went after his pension and were able to get paid for our care.

When visiting Sunday came along – the one and only thing on my mind was  – when do we get to go home, to be with  our parents?   The same old answer  – that I always got   – “we are doing everything that  they want us to do – but they always have something else that has to be done!”

So this is where   putting “prayers in the Bank”  started! I said every prayer that I could find that might be the one special one for us  (my brothers and my self to get to go home)   but no  single prayer did anything?  I even started making “novenas”  and to each  “Saint” that I was told had miraculous powers. I even,   would burn  candles  – as some “Novenas” called for. I never gave up,  I did pray and always with the one and only “HOPE”  – that soon I would get to go home!  I was in the orphanage until the day I graduated from  the  8th grade.  That was  (7)  seven  long years.   At the age I am  now   – I understand things a lot better. Every body has to go through a period of learning and  when would a better time come along  – then when you are young and  can take  the harder knocks that are thrown your way. It ‘s  never easy learning   –  but once you learn to stay on the “right course” in life you can accomplish so much more.

All those  “Prayers”  went into my  “Bank” account  in Heaven  –  and with interest   –  all the days of my life  – I now have to give  “Thanks”  to  my Heavenly Creator   – for giving   to me  –  the best family that I now have here on earth, and for ever more!


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