Unanswered Prayers

Sometimes life starts to get hard and I forget the reasons why I'm happy the way things have turned out. It's been that way for me lately, mainly because of this particular time of the year. However, a song has been at the back of my head for the past few days and it holds a special place in my heart. On one of the most painful and destroying days of my life, this song came on the radio as my parents were driving me home. It was as if this song was actually the answer to my prayer . . . which is ironic. Just the other night a hometown football game My wife and I ran into my old high school flame And as I introduced them the past came back to me And I couldn't help but think of the way things used to be She was the one that I'd wanted for all times And each night I'd spend prayin' that God would make her mine And if he'd only grant me this wish I wished back then I'd never ask for anything again Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs That just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers She wasn't quite the angel that I remembered in my dreams And I could tell that time had changed me In her eyes too it seemed We tried to talk about the old days There wasn't much we could recall I guess the Lord knows what he's doin' after all And as she walked away and I looked at my wife And then and there I thanked the good Lord For the gifts in my life Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs That just because he may not answer doesn't mean he don't care Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered Some of God's greatest gifts are all too often unanswered... Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers Basically, the moral of the story is that sometimes I feel like every single prayer I send up is unanswered. And then I look back and realized that Heavenly Father had my back the whole time. Maybe my life still is difficult and frustrating and confusing, but I know that when everything is said and done, He will have given me an even better Happily Ever After.