Unanswered Prayers

I hate seeing peoples hearts break, and their faith being given a beating. I don't know what to say or do. Even though I've been there myself, I don't know how to help them through.

This song kept popping into my head when talking with a friend earlier, but I can't say it as I know that they are in the position I was, and would probably feel the same way as I once did.

My then boyfriend introduced me to this song, once we broke up, whenever it would play on my iPod I would skip it for a good 2 years afterwards. I Absolutely hated it! When you're so surrounded by rubbish in life. It's hard to see over the piles of junk. It's hard to believe that there is a world outside the rubbish dump that you are in. It's almost impossible. So that is why I hated this song, because I couldn't imagine it, I couldn't believe it,  even though some tiny part of me kind of thought it would one day be true.

Nowadays I can listen to it, I actually like it, Now I know it's true, and have been healed enough to believe it.

"Just the other night at 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
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 recal
lI 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 doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered...
Some of God's greatest gifts are too often unanswered...
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."

I was once asked why Can't God just fix it, make a relationship work... I'm sure our hearts have all cried this at some stage. We've all been mad at God and not been able to understand. This song expresses what we've felt.

My one disclaimer from the video, is that I really don't think that strength is how well you hide the pain. 

I think that telling people how you feel, and allowing yourself to feel it, deal with it, and slowly heal is strength. Not hiding it in shame and pretending it doesn't exist.

I Think God could make people love people, he could "fix it" but where it the free will, as the previous song lyrics say I think that God so often has a plan for us, he can see the big picture that we can't see.

It's cliché but happiness isn’t getting what you want, it's wanting what you got. 

God knows what He’s doing whether we understand it or not.