As things get weirder and feel more like unfolding chapters in a pre apocalypse novel, I have mentioned several times that my prayer life is somewhat fine-tuned nowadays. Beside specific prayers and prayers of gratitude and worship, I pray for Divine Intervention, I pray for deliverance from evil, protection from tragedy and I pray for grace, (even though we don't deserve it). Lately I have added on the request for opened eyes.
I am pretty sure each point of my prayer is self explanatory with the possible exception of tragedy. Some might think I am asking that nothing bad ever happens to me or mine. But that is not the kind of tragedy I am referring to which is the unnecessary kind. That is when we don't pay attention to potential consequences of our actions, when we make foolish, unnecessarily bad choices.
To be clear it isn't about risk taking, which is the only way civilization has advanced over the ages. Like pioneers tossing kids and everything they own into a wagon and heading to the great untamed West. No. Bad decision making, that ends in what we would consider tragic, comes from our toddler human nature that has no common sense skills and causes irreversible, unnecessary harm to ourselves or others. Therefore what I am praying for is that God pokes us, gets our attention, when we are being reckless.
Tragedy, as most define it, is most certainly painful and often life altering but some kinds of tragedy can be averted. Sometimes we just need to pay attention to what we are doing or not doing irresponsibly to avoid unneeded anguish. I suspect this falls within the fine print of the free will contract we have with our long suffering and patient Almighty Creator.
Thus, when I pray for protection from tragedy I'm not referring to those horrific calamities that come upon us without warning or chance for preparation. Like a life altering major storm that wipes cities off the map. I don't know how to pray against that kind of tragedy. If I fell back on asking that we be delivered from evil, that might cover it but I am such a tiny voice, I think I am going to get overridden in that effort. The next option is to pray for mercy and restoration for those impacted by that kind of catastrophe.
And then, there's this - when I pray that eyes be opened I am also making a commitment to sharing what I know so that the opportunity is presented to see or not to see. Free will is so pesky all one can do is speak when necessary according to the prompts.
The following is an exchange in X (formally known as Twitter). Since I don't do social media I took screen shots. It is significant information and speaks to the first part of my prayer - deliver us from evil. I made a commitment to share this in the ways I am able.
Evil is real and working overtime so opened eyes are seriously needed now. The blind cannot lead the blind.
Thanks for sharing this. Very well written. I am a prayer warrior and you reminded me to think about what I am praying about. ie..selfish. I was looking forward to see what people were saying about the pics of the communications. I personally would not doubt it. Our only known lithium deposit in the US is the exact area they want to bulldoze. We used to get all our lithium from Afghanistan (when we were occupying them)and you know how that turned out. Where are we to get all that lithium for the EV’s and other technologies. Have a blessed day or night whenever you read this.