Does He Really Hear Us?

[Daddy Carp]

A fortune cookie is something that most of us muse about and enjoy after an oriental dinner. They are light hearted sayings of a non-specific nature to brighten our mood. Seldom have you seen a serious prediction or saying and never a religious saying or insinuation in a fortune cookie. No, I'm not a cookie salesman, but I would like to share with you an email from my daughter who was always taught that there is a God who is in total control. As with so many of her generation, religion was not "cool" on campus and in the professional corporate circles. It became, "I believe but not sure as to the power and control over destiny. When I have time, I'll check it out more." was her attitude. I have seen a prayer answered for this youngster's health, and through her email response, seen another answered for the well-being of her sole. God works in mysterious ways but he does work! Remember as you read her writings, religious sayings are not put in fortune cookies. Most Chinese are Buddhist. Please share:

This really is from me, Monica. It is not a chain letter that I have copied from someone else. I

Sent this message below to many of you before I ever left the restaurant (you can see Justin's

Arm and his favorite Mountain Dew shirt he is wearing in the background). I didn't have

Everyone plugged into my phone so I am resending it. The picture is rather large and blurry

But the message below should explain...(as for the rough week it's been non-stop challenges

Between my dad's challenges with his cancer, a close friend that was in CCU and

Tonight my nephew ended up in the emergency room for some mysterious seizure.)

Make no mistake, I'm not telling you all of this to whine...just to let you know the frame of

Mind I was in when I sent the message below. For the record, I've never been a very good

Christian but I've always been extremely Spiritual. I don't know that I'll ever be a

Good Christian, but I will publicly share this Message and profess my faith in God. Maybe it's

The "There's no athiest in a foxhole" syndrome (I've never been athiest, by the way---that's

Just an expression) Or maybe it's just my time to Listen, whatever the case may be....

I thought I'd share it.

Monica

So I have had a rough week and I took the kids out for dinner at our favorite Chinese buffet.

At the end of the meal we got our fortune cookies and I silently said a little prayer

to give me a message that would lift me up. If you cant read the message in the picture it says

"God looks after you especially." I think that message is as about as uplifting as it gets. Don't

You? I think I'll keep that little paper for the rest of my life!



(the picture of the "fortune" would not copy, but is of her hands holding the saying & showing it to her children at the table in the restaurant.)