MY BIRTHDAY PRAYER

What more can I ask for?  Loving Father...I asked that I can finish college and YOU let me finish it. Although it took me 6 years to finish it (add my incomplete grades every time I won't be able to take our final exams due to so many absences because of my heart ailment)...still I received my college diploma.  After college...I asked YOU to find me a job so I can help my family, I landed a job in an advertising agency. I enjoyed every day of my life in my newly found job and met the love of my life there.  We married and YOU gave us our son and our daughter.  The hardest part of course is struggling while we build our family.  But YOU are always there...through  the sun and the rain...even through the storm.  I knew then that it is not only my husband and I...it's GOD, my husband and I. Holding on makes me persevere...praying makes me believe...asking GOD for our daily needs makes my faith stronger than ever. Sometimes I stumbled down...almost felt like drowning...but when I am about to lose my last breath...SOMEONE will carry me and put my feet on the higher ground.  Then I will be alive again...HE sent me people who helped.  These people made our load lighter.  I knew they are heaven sent!!! Today is my birthday...what more can I ask for? I am already 52 and thank GOD for the very colorful 52 years of my life...I still have my husband...thank you for bearing with me.  My son is already 23 and is now working.  Oh boy, I never knew I can still be very alive when he turned 23.  My sweet lady is 21 now and for sure next year she will finished her studies too and find a perfect job for her.

Now there are many restrictions...my heart is getting weaker.  Do I really need an operation? GOD please I still want a normal life... I still want to enjoy serving my family.  I still want to be a part of their important occasions.  I still want to experience loving them and feeling their love...I still want to kiss and hug my husband .  I still love to prepare breakfast for them everyday. I knew they can do it by themselves but please...please let me do it for them.  I still  want to experience life with them...please I still want to be with them.  I STILL WANT TO LIVE LONGER!!!

I also have a perfect job...I am happy helping and touching other people's lives.  As YOU sent me people whom I can serve through my work...YOU are teaching me of selflessness...as YOU open me to a bigger income...YOU are teaching me honesty and gratitude...as YOU gave me clients who trust...YOU are teaching me of humbleness...and going back to YOU again and again and teaching me that all things comes from GOD!!! MY GOD,  I am enjoying my life and savoring every bit of your wisdom and knowledge.  I know it's not my will but THY WILL BE DONE... PLEASE...CREATE A NEW HEART IN ME AND RENEW MY LIFE...RESTORE ME TO FULL HEALTH IN BODY. MIND AND SPIRIT...AND AFTER I HAVE BEEN HEALED, MAY I BE A WITNESS OF YOUR HEALING POWER AND LOVE AND BRING YOU GLORY, HONOR AND PRAISE.  THESE I PRAY IN JESUS' NAME THROUGH MARY WITH ALL THE ANGELS AND SAINTS. AMEN.