What am I doing?

One homily that has always stuck in my head was when one of the rotating priests came through my Lil church in Marina and told a story about this man who kept praying and praying to God to win the lottery. "Please Lord, let me win the lottery! I'm so desperate and life is so bleak." Time went on and on and on, yet the man never won the lotto. Then one day the man died. When he got to heaven, he asked why his prayers were never answered. The response he got was, "You can't win the lottery if you never bought a ticket."

I relate this story to my life so many times. Take for instance, the play that i'm directing. It's been 2 years after I've written it and in that span, I've been hoping and praying that someone else would produce and direct it. It hasn't happened yet, so, I had to "buy a ticket" and pursue that dream on my own. There's one thing to have faith in prayer, but it's also a reminder that it takes two to make a dream happen. You, the dreamer, to take action, and the Higher Being to listen. The other part of faith is that if after all you did and you're prayers aren't still answered... then maybe another plan is set for ya.

one of the things on my list of prayers, along with God watching over everyone I love and their families, is that I find love... but I know that I have to "buy a ticket" first and get out there.