XV. It will be given to you

XV. It Will Be Given to You
Where we we? Oh yes, Aunt Millificent was praying for God to help her help Hobblestone if he wanted her to. Now pay attention because this is important: She was praying that God would help her know what to say to her nephew.

                She had confidence that this would happen because it had happened so often at other times (remember the episode of the Terrible Ice Cream Temper Tantrum of so many years ago?). So one thing we could say was that her faith was based on her experience of praying and receiving answers to prayers of this sort.

Rule # 123: People who pray often have experiences which strengthen their faith. Try it and find out for yourself.

                One of her favorite Bible passages came from one of the Gospels: “It will be given you what to say.” This was another promise that had proved itself to be true more times than I can tell you about right now. Again, you have to check it out for yourself if you’re interested; that is, if you want to cross this particular bridge. In my humble opinion, it’s a good bridge to cross. As I said in the last entry, Aunt Millificent was never sure how God would work things out. In fact, sometimes he does it in ways that one never would have expected. Remember when he used The Cat for one of his solutions. God tends to be very creative, you know.

Rule # 124: When we ask for help, it often comes in the most unexpected ways, thank God.

This time when she was praying for guidance, help came quickly. Before Hobblestone got to the house, she took a look at one of her favorite books (I’ll tell you about it later.) and Just Happened to find a passage that might help. Oops. The doorbell rang. He’s here. She put the book aside and went to answer the door, praying, “Lord, help me help him.” –another prayer that she found to be quite effective.

To sum up: Aunt Millificent’s faith came from her experience of prayer and how effective it could be. And having that kind of faith made it easier to build a strong bridge to the land of Trust. 

Rule # 96: Faith helps build bridges.

That is why her faith is so strong. In fact, it was her faith that built bridges for her to cross where she could do a lot of good for Hobblestone, and for many other people who were fortunate enough to have her as a gift in their lives. Just wait until you find out what she did for Virgil’s mother. You’ll be amazed; I can’t wait to find out myself. This blog isn’t only about you, you know.

One last thing for now. Her faith was also the basis for a great deal of creativity. Not that she was an artist or author or anything like that, but just in the way she lived her life and in the solutions she so often came up with to problems she set her mind to fixing. Of course, she would say that God gave her the solutions as a gift. Wow. What a way to life. Can you live like that yet?

Now it’s time to move on. Enough blog for today. But rest assured that you don’t need to know the answers to the following issues: 1) anything about gift wrapping; 2) people who hear voices that tell them to do bad things; 3) people who pray with rattlesnakes.