He Loves Us

Last night, I had an interesting "Oooohhh....." moment as I was reading my scriptures. Often, I have wondered at the miracle of prayer. I have wondered, too, how the whole "asking and receiving" thing works. It has often seemed to me that whe you ask for something, He will give it to you if that was in the plan anyway. Otherwise, you will get a lesson on how God's ways are not your ways, etc.

But think of this: How do you know when someone loves you? Well, what peaks most sincerely to me are the things that people do for me--the little acts of service they didn't need to do; the times they did something with Gwen in mind. The Lord, also, does these things for us, but I think that we frequently take these little things for granted. It's like a child who never has to ask their parents to do anything, because everything is already done. It's like clean laundry or a plate of food--it just magically gets taken care of.

So, I think Heavenly Father wants us to ask him for things so we can literally see that He loves us. When we ask, and receive, we see the direct correlation between what we wanted from Him, and what was given. There's a good chance we would have gotten it anyway, but he wants us to know it's not magic; its Him.