If you find your mind wandering a lot when you pray, try typing your prayer out to the Lord. It’s a great way to keep your mind focused on what you’re REALLY supposed to be doing! It’s also a wonderful way to keep a record of requests, and see how God has answered your prayers.
It’s like a nice love letter to God!
Meet the “real” Jamie Martin!
A few weeks ago as I was pondering about writing the story, “Alone, Yet Not Alone,” I remembered a conversation I had with a lady in the church. Tawn Lowell, wife of Army pilot Steve Lowell, very kindly shared her experience with me as a basis of my story.
In real life, Steve was heading out the door of their home in Savannah, Georgia, to go to NTC in California for four weeks when Tawn, suddenly realizing that he might not be present for the delivery, called out, “But wait! What do we name the baby if she comes while you are gone?” As he was getting in the car, he quickly replied, “Savannah!”
Also, in real life, her mother was present for the birth, which turned sour with an emergency c-section. Tawn thought it strange that her baby did not cry when she was born, but found out soon that little Savannah had a hole in her lung and was rushed to NICU. Within a day or so, her mother had to leave, and so Tawn was alone. It was as though she hadn’t even had a baby. But God, in His kindness, healed little Savannah, who is now fourteen years old and loves the Lord.
As the story goes, the doctors were unwilling to release her from the hospital without help at home, and a kind nurse sent several requests through the Red Cross to have Steve come home from NTC. All of this was done, however, without Tawn’s knowledge, so she was completely astonished to see Steve walk in the door!
Through all this, she kept praying and trusting God, who very kindly worked some wonderful surprises on her behalf.
After all this, I wonder to myself… What about the many, many military wives who have to go through such hard times by themselves, especially if they have no relationship to God? What if they have no one to hear their prayers?
Please continue to pray for our men and women in uniform!
