Andy's Opening Thoughts

This is a little something my friend Andy wrote and read out at youth group last week, and I just thought it was so cool! So I thought I would share it with you (whoever you is). These are his words, not mine.




Okay, lets set the mood here:
3:30am, its VERY dark. The moon is lighting the whole sky and also were I can see. I am tired, have just seen my mum, am full of Limewire (for a change) and garlic bread. Listening to my music on my laptop (also for a change) I am happy. So! I decide to look to the sky, out of the corner of my eye I spot a shooting star. As soon as I see it I think "WHOOOH WISH TIME!" So, upon thinking that I quickly make a wish. I open my eyes, adjust my bicycle so I'm NOT in the gutter and center everything. I ponder on the wish I made for a moment and then selfishly, I close my eyes again and start thinking a single thought that goes like this:

"Dear Lord, please make the next song Shooting Stars"

Now! Please don't kill me yet, I know it was slefish and something you don't really ask the almighty Lord, but my wish was selfless, so NYEAH!

So, at the time I had 1945 songs in my playlist. So! The chances of a single song playing was... well... pretty to use a space pun, ASTRONOMICAL! Knowing this I kinda shrugged it off thinking it would never happen. After a bit of Bass Hunter, I found myself waiting eagerly for the result. Stars or Naah's? The Shoting Stars I had wanted was this (Plays snipet of Shooting Stars - Bag Raiders) this, however, is what I got instead (plays snipet of Airplanes - B.O.B ft Hayley Williams)

Now! You may think this proves nothing right? Or maybe you're thinking "Andy, is there a point to this?" Well lads and female-lads, there is! I listened to Airplanes and felt so happy. It wasn't the song I wanted, but it felt like out of the 1945 songs that COULD have played, this one was very close to what I wanted. To put it bluntly, I felt as if God listened and was riding that ride with me. He had heard my prayer, but answered it differently.

AND NOW TO MY POINT!!! I felt God had heard my prayer but answered it differently, yet He still had my best interests in mind. Which I feel brought me to this point nicely; GOD ALWAYS LISTENS! And although He may see like he doesn't answer your prayers, He does. He listens, and He answers, but in His own time and not ours, it may not even be exactly what you wanted. But He has heard and He has answered. He has our interests at heart and mind. Heck! He sent his only son to die for our sins, so He MUST like us a-freakin-lot right? So! If your prayers feel like they go by unheard...

Do not fret! They are with The Lord himself, he doesn't have an office lady who deals with those matters, he does them PERSONALLY. Do not fret I say! For The Lord works in mysterious ways, your prayers will be answered, be they answered word for word, or in The Lords on sly little way. Do not fret my friends!