Prayer and Pandora
Today, at the beginning of my work day I started feeling overwhelmed and anxious with work things, life things, kid things, basically just all the things. Anxiety is a brutal feeling y’all, it sits on your shoulders, on your heart and on your mind. It swirls around you until you’re completely consumed unless you can find a way to step out of the haze that it produces. With the pressures of life and a growing to-do list I didn’t know how exactly to step out of it since I couldn’t necessarily step away from it, so I texted my husband and told him I was feeling anxious and asked him if he would please pray for me. This isn’t something I do on the daily or even semi-regularly, asking someone, even my husband to pray for me, but I texted him that simple request before I think I even knew what I was doing. The response that came in mere seconds was “You got it!” And I knew he would immediately send up a prayer asking for peace to surround me because that’s just the type of guy he is.
Music is therapy for me and helps me get out of my own head so after texting him I opened a tab on my computer and started up Pandora. When I turned it on the very first song was George Strait’s “Cross My Heart”, now let me be honest, George is enough to help anyone out of a funk BUT this was our wedding song!
It was immediately obvious to me that not only did my husband do exactly as he said he would but that God answers prayers and speaks to us in the best ways He knows how at the time. Since I was at work the best way would be to send me a song (George Strait walking through my door would’ve been ok as well…just sayin’.)
My anxiety slowly reduced as I focused on the music, and memories of a beautiful day 23 years ago when I married my best friend. I quickly grabbed my phone and snapped a picture of my screen to send to my prayer warrior to which he replied, “See, my prayers worked!” Let’s not get cocky now Kempken, I mean you’re not King George.
Tonight as I lay my head down and say my prayers as always they will be for my husband and my children but I might just say a thankful prayer for Pandora too ’cause sometimes the radio just knows y’all.
