If you were in worship Sunday I hope you picked up a slip with green dots on it, and put one of those dots in strategic locations around your car and house to remind yourself to open up a conversation with the God who loves you, and to keep that conversation going throughout the day, every day.  (If you weren’t, or forgot to get the dots, there will be some next Sunday in the lobby).  It isn’t easy to remember that God cares about every aspect of our lives, and wants to be involved in every aspect of our lives, and will answer our prayers, often in amazing ways.  The dots are one way to remind ourselves that we have to start those conversations.  The good news is that our prayers don’t have to be fancy.  A simple, “Here I am.  I don’t know how to pray,” is enough to open the door.  The important thing is to keep it open.

I spoke in the message about the occasions I have experienced in the last several months of praying for a friend’s lost keys, and praying for a woman’s refrigerator, and praying for my own lost keys.  And even after all that, and after having the apparently uncorrectable distortion in my left ear healed after someone prayed over it two weeks ago (I also shared this story.  If you want to hear it, check out the website for the sermon), I was stunned when a member of our congregation walked up to me after the 9:45 service holding two sets of keys.  One, he said, had been lost for two years.  After hearing my stories, as he walked to his car he thought “Well, if she can find HER keys….” And he offered a prayer for his lost ones.  When he got to his car he reached under the seat and there they were.  There is more to that story and I hope someday you will hear it all.