A Prayer for the Ages

I was blown away when I heard something the other day at an event that God called me to attend.  A 78-year-old man, Gary, was sharing his story of having cancer and how a 7-year-old boy impacted his life recently.  Gary stated that he had undergone cancer treatments over the past 2 years and was now cancer free, but then his wife of 40 years was diagnosed with an inoperable form of cancer and had died 3 weeks earlier.  Gary was seeking fellowship because of his immense sadness and showed up on Wednesday night at his church’s “Wonderful Wednesdays” meal and worship.  That particular night they did something different at worship.  All the attendees were divided up into small groups and they shared their High’s and Low’s of the day, read a bible verse, prayed for and blessed each other.  The Spirit must have been very active that evening because Gary was put in a group with a very caring 7 year old boy who, after hearing Gary’s story, wrote a prayer to be read aloud by the pastor.  The prayer went something like this–“Dear God, I wish I could have had cancer so Gary for him so he wouldn’t have to go through all that. Amen.”  Wow, such compassion from a 7-year-old boy.  His prayer brought tears to Gary’s eyes and opened the door for God’s healing. This further showed me that we need to seize every opportunity to connect all ages together, because the Spirit will indeed intercede and teach us something through disciple of every age!