Ang Peregrino Recommends 40: Dear God

Dear God​.Net
URL: http://​www​.dear​-god​.net/

It doesn’t mat­ter what your ver­sion of God is…Jesus, Allah, Bud­dha, sim­ply a spir­i­tual uni­ver­sal energy, or maybe you call God THE FORCE… pray­ing to a higher power–something or some­one greater than us soothes and heals–aside from giv­ing us the sense that there is more to life than our sim­ple exis­tence. It is believed that peo­ple who pray are health­ier, hap­pier and more resilient. Some peo­ple, like the Chris­t­ian saints con­nect their ful­fill­ment to ful­fill­ing the will of God.

I like Dear​-God​.Net because it con­nects me to the rest of human­ity and there are prayers I can always relate with. Some­times when I’m in a rut myself, I just click on Dear God’s Humor let­ters to laugh a lit­tle or to try to find some Hope in life. Some­times though, I check on prayers about death. They are full of ques­tions like my own, and full of suf­fer­ing, and doubt that mir­rors mine. And the prayers make me feel that I am part of the human family.

You might also want to share your prayers here and help cre­ate hope one prayer at a time.

Some exam­ples:
Dear God, I used to think, IF YOU WERE REAL WHY WOULD U SCREW UP MINE AND MY FRIENDS LIVES, but I’m now over that, I’m up to the stage that your either there or your not. I was raped by my brother for 5 years, but of course you already knew that, and I know why u did that (if u were real), seri­ously I don’t know what to think, like there is so many things prov­ing against you, and every­one calls your son Jesus which means they don’t like you. Why cant u just show your­self to me, and prove to me that your there ??? I keep ask­ing but i see noth­ing, as the say­ing matthew 7:7–8 says ask and you will receive, I haven’t recieved any­thing after many times of ask­ing, please just help me god, show me your there.

And one of my per­sonal favorites because it is so heart wrenching:

Dear ………..some­one, any­one, you.
Every­day I fail.
Every­day I find hatred in myself.
Every­day I try.
Every­day I let myself down.
Every­day I look for guid­ance.
Every­day I seek solace.
Every­day I am sad.
Every­day I know tomor­row will be no different.

I want to believe.
I want to love.
I want to win.
I want to do bet­ter.
I want to change.
I want to be happy.
I want to be proud of myself.
I want to know tomor­row will be dif­fer­ent.
I will con­tinue to want change everyday……

For the deep real­iza­tion that what­ever our reli­gion is or our back­ground or race is, we are part of the human fam­ily, Ang Pere­grino Rec­om­mends Dear​-God​.Net this week.