No Room for Doubt

Don't get me wrong.  I have issues with Paul, on many levels. But I love these words attributed to him:

"Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known  to God."

About anything, the Pauline author says, have no anxiety.  ANYTHING.

But (big but) everything by prayer.

Supplication with thanksgiving.

Supplication defined:  "to provide something".

SOMETHING.

Crispy night, tonight.  Tom was in the midst of making a very ordinary meal that involved, well, Spain.   He is so tired, this lover of mine.  Friday.  Evening.

Then, the request came:  "can we have some of that, it would make Jason so happy".

REQUESTS.

This boyfriend, this fresh-faced boy who is trying to do everything that is right and good for his own home.  His own relationship, comes to fetch something well and right from Tom's kitchen.  For Jason.

"Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your

requests be made known to God."

PRAYER.

Grant, dear Mother and Father God, that all your children have blessings like the yondering, wondering Greg and Jason and how they have blessed us tonight.

Amen.