My cousin Julie, who lost her beautiful toddler son in an accident, on the cruel and misguided concept that God answers SOME prayers, but not others:
I think it’s a cruel thing to say (that it was prayer that saved a child’s life after an accident) within earshot of people who have lost someone they love to painful disease or an out-of-the-blue accident, because why wasn’t their child or parent or friend saved? Weren’t their prayers heard? Should they have had a larger prayer chain? More candlelight vigils? A papal intercession? Did they not donate enough to the poor? Were their lives too blemished for their prayers to be answered? Was it all their fault??
Go read the whole thing. Julie is SUCH a good writer.
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Thanks, Katie. I really appreciate the compliment and the visit to my blog.
I’m afraid to read it for fear of sobbing. However, I do agree that it is a cruel, (and often just something to say) heartless comment to make. I also hate “he’s in a better place”. I know that. I am a Christian and this is one my deep beliefs. I think people generally mean well and are often repeating what they have heard all their lives. I don’t think we will know the answer to why one child survives and another does not until we meet our maker. But I don’t think it’s a result of who prayed the hardest; God WAY more loving and kind.