snoopy500 said:
Hey everyone thanks so much for the prayers!
I was in surgery for 5 hours, and it basically was 3 surgeries put into one. I have 29 staples as the result of the surgery and two massive incisions in my knee. I spent two nights in the hospital and then was discharged to come home and have been cooped up in my house on the couch for about 3 days now. 6 more weeks of this, and I will be free!!!
That's good to hear you're doing better. I just found out about this, so I couldn't pray for your surgery, but I will pray for your speedy and complete recovery
xchillx42 said:
All I can do is wish you luck, prayer is proven not to work.
Proven by whom? Has it been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that prayer does not reach some being who then decides whether the subject of the prayer is best for the prayee? I have seen many instances where just having people thinking about you, and knowing that, is enough to give someone hope. Hope that they will get better. When someone who is terminally ill gives up, they
will die. That is one of the primary purposes of praying for someone, giving them hope. Sending them your goodwill, by way of God.
Now, granted, sometimes there are those who all the prayer in the world isn't enough to save. Well, I believe that to be because God created a world with balance. Both good things and bad things happen. Nothing of this universe can exist without its opposite--light and darkness, matter and antimatter, positive and negative, and good and evil. (God obviously does not apply to this because he is not of this universe. Something cannot be of this universe if it created it.) Life cannot exist without death, in the same line. Death is an essential part of life, and well, we Christians believe that death is merely passing into the next world. Atheists generally believe death is the end of everything. Whichever way it is, neither can exist without the other.
I apologize for the tangent, I had to explain in detail why I think prayer "doesn't always work."
