26. Prayer and Time
When I went into Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for a second surgery, I had asked my children to pray and to imagine me wrapped in a yellow blanket. My youngest daughter asked what time my surgery was and I told her it was scheduled for 9:30am. She gathered her children around the table at that time and they prayed.
Later when we talked I told her about the delay and the surgery was actually at 11am. The children were disappointed and felt that they had prayed at the wrong time. Still later I told them what my pastor at that time, Charlie McNeil, said, “It’s never too early or too late to pray because God works with all times and with no time.”
I think that’s true and I’ve been glad to learn it. It takes the pressure off to find the exact right time. It helps to know that God can adjust it all and match the prayers at any time with the situation.
