I'll be praying for you!

Has something happened that rocked your world? Something completely unexpected? Did you lose your job? Did you lose someone you love? Are you fighting with your significant other? In the wake if this horrible event, how many phone calls did you recieve with someone on the other end telling you how sorry they are and that they will be praying for you? Did those words comfort you? Did those words really mean anything to you? 

Or MAYBE you looked around at the people who came to support you in your time of need and thought "do you only pray when something bad happens?" Maybe it's just me, but sometimes I wonder....

I look around at the people closest to me and I just know they are praying, I don't expect them to tell me or post those words on my Facebook. 

It makes me wonder if those who behind the screen or on the other end if the phone really "pray" at all, or if just when things are bad? It also makes me wonder if they pray for me for my sake or there's? 

Now don't get me wrong, I understand sometimes your friends are in different states, countries and time zones, and the only way they CAN express their concern for you is through the phone or social media. But even then don't those check back in with you? Don't you hear from them in a short period of time and they want to know how YOU are? I am not referring to those friends. 

In this edition, I am mostly refering to those that "play a role" in life, no matter what that role is, they can turn concern on and off as the situation calls for. They don't really care about how you are on a day to day basis, and in turn you probably feel the same because you are never really sure of the motivation behind the concern. 

Let's get back to real friendship. People we can call at any given time and vent,complain, or cry at any given time, and not have to wonder if they really care or if they will "be praying for you". Let's not define our worth by the amount of likes we get. 

To have real life fellowship we need real life people who don't always say the right things or do the right things, but you know deep in your heart that those band of misfits you surround yourself with care more about you, then the person who spits out the cookie cutter terms as the situation deems. 

Just my humble opinion, love it or leave it ;)