{"id":139,"date":"2013-06-05T02:54:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T02:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dd8193ef-4797-4073-9da5-96866bd7c327"},"modified":"2017-11-21T21:49:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T02:49:15","slug":"thanksgiving-a-little-story-on-the-nature-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving, A Little Story on the Nature of Prayer, by Jennifer Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving,<\/span><\/p>\n

A Little Story on the Nature of Prayer<\/span><\/p>\n

By<\/span><\/p>\n

Jennifer Angelina Petro<\/span><\/p>\n

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A prayer hung heavily on a branch of the Tree of Life.\u00a0Ripening over centuries, it grew sweeter with age and the persistence of faith.\u00a0 One day the Gardener strolled by, singing as usual, and plucked the prayer from the Tree, and with great gusto, took a hearty bite, letting the juices river down his chin.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNow that,\u201d he said, talking with his mouth full, \u201cis a good prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He continued to eat the prayer, crunching down to the core.\u00a0When he got to the star shaped seeds he carefully picked them out and then casually, gracefully, and with intention, dropped them to earth.\u00a0 Weeping for the sheer ecstasy of having been touched by the Gardener\u2019s hands, the seeds fell for days and weeks through open, pristine space, tossed here and there by currents of sound and desire.\u00a0 They danced as they descended\u2014leaning into little pirouettes and whirled in sweeping spirals, down, down, down they drifted and eventually landed precisely where the Gardener intended them to go\u2014right into the hearts of a little boy and his father.<\/p>\n

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The little boy had prayed prayers of gratitude all night, for his father hadn\u2019t had a drink in over three months; and the father, weeping in thanks for finally having been freed from the chains of his disease, had prayed prayers of gratitude all night as well.\u00a0 The seeds nestled in their hearts and, because they were prayers of thanksgiving, sprouted quickly, spreading their holy fire into entire orchards of flourishing trees right through the dark valleys of the lives of that boy and his father.\u00a0 Soon the boy and his father would be harvesting the fruits of their prayers, and sharing them in heaping bushels with each other, their neighbors and friends, and the world.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA beautiful day,\u201d the Gardener said as he plucked another prayer from the Tree, \u201cthanksgiving is blossoming everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

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All donations go to medical bills and groceries.\u00a0 <3
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