Comments on: First Person: Praying for a Snow Day https://womenseekingchrist.org/2010/02/16/first-person-praying-for-a-snow-day/ Who We Are, What We Believe, How We Live -- Glimpses into Latter-day Saint Life Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:55:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michelle https://womenseekingchrist.org/2010/02/16/first-person-praying-for-a-snow-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15182 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:55:32 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=5150#comment-15182 This all makes me think of how amazing God is — that He can somehow know of individual needs, and often meet them, and yet do that at the level of billions of people on this planet.

Thanks for the post. (And I love the photo!)

]]> By: Kathryn https://womenseekingchrist.org/2010/02/16/first-person-praying-for-a-snow-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15069 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:11:35 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=5150#comment-15069 Dear Heather,
It truly would take a miracle to get a snow day in our school district…so don’t waste time feeling any guilt. They NEVER have snow days here….NEVER….
I loved the photograph and your thoughts!

]]> By: Heather L https://womenseekingchrist.org/2010/02/16/first-person-praying-for-a-snow-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15053 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:26:47 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=5150#comment-15053 Thank you so much for your comments and experiences!
Now I’m praying for no more “ominous but unproductive gray sky” days :-).

]]> By: Heidi https://womenseekingchrist.org/2010/02/16/first-person-praying-for-a-snow-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15041 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:31:23 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=5150#comment-15041 This really touched me. You make so many good points. My dad tells a story of when he served a mission in Minnesota in the 1940’s. He and his companion were walking down a country lane. One one side was a farm and on the other was a different farm. One farm had a huge cloud over it and it was raining. The other farm had no clouds or rain, only sun. He said he knew then the true power of prayer (he was assuming the one farmer prayed for rain and the other didn’t). But maybe, just maybe, one farmer prayed for rain and one prayed for sun.

]]> By: Merry Michelle https://womenseekingchrist.org/2010/02/16/first-person-praying-for-a-snow-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15040 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:11:42 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=5150#comment-15040 Your post reminds me of the Groberg book “In the Eye of the Storm”. The Tongans would never pray for a favorable wind, since someone on the other side may be wanting a favorable wind as well.

I don’t think we need to worry about sending up our true hopes and desires to God in prayer. He’s an expert at discerning between a true need and something that won’t be good for us and others. But maybe thinking carefully over what we pray for or how we pray take us one step closer to him and others in empathy.

It also reminds me of the country song “Thank God for Unanswered Prayers”.

Great post, Heather. And just for the record, I’m probably the one on the other side praying for NO MORE SNOW!

]]> By: jendoop https://womenseekingchrist.org/2010/02/16/first-person-praying-for-a-snow-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15027 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:34:09 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=5150#comment-15027 Let go and let God – It’s a mantra I chant to myself on stressful days. It does wonders for my attitude.

Thanks for your post 🙂

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