This event is of 1899 in America. One adult person of 47 years was standing at a river’s bridge. He was returning to his farmhouse from Maryville. He came across the bridge of river 102, and stopped there. He was thinking- what he should do? He had been struggling since 10 years. Doing very hard work, agriculture and cattle rearing, But result was only losses and losses. He had no money left. The property had been mortgaged, and there was no way even to pay the interest. His family was suffering with poverty. All hopes were finished, there was no support left at all. He remained standing there for many hours about the question of ending his life by jumping in the river. But in the end he returned to home.
Many years later he told his son- Dale, do u know why I didn’t jumped of the river that day? Only because of your mother’s faith I was saved. She used to pray every day to God – “even if all assurances quit, oh god! The helper of the helpless people, the only support, shelter of us, please doesn’t forget us. We love God, and in the last all will be fine.” And really it happened! After it, he spent his remaining life happily and died in 1941.
Dale Carnegie, the famous writer, wrote in his book “How to stop worrying and Start Living?” it is explained in his book how his parents conquered the worries. Dale says, poverty was pursuing us, we were victim of difficulties at every step, but my mother was never worried. She entrusted all the problems to the God. She used to read a chapter of Bible every day before sleeping;
“ In my Father’s house are many mansions,
I go to prepare a place for you,
That where I am, there ye may be also.”
Neither floods nor debts nor disaster could suppress her happy, radiant, and victorious spirit. She often used to sing;
“Peace, Peace, Wonderful Peace,
Flowing down the Father above,
Sweep over my spirit forever I pray,
In fathomless billows of love.”
Dale has explained that prayer fulfills these three very basic psychological needs which all people share, whether they believe in God or not:
Prayer helps us to put into words exactly what is troubling us. is almost impossible to deal with a problem while it remains vague and nebulous. Praying, in a way, is very much like writing our problem down on paper. If we ask help for a problem-even from God-we must put it into words.
Prayer gives us a sense of sharing our burdens, of not being alone. Few of us are so strong that we can bear our heaviest burdens, our most agonizing troubles, all by ourselves. Sometimes our worries are of so intimate a nature that we cannot discuss them even with our closest relatives or friends. Then prayer is the answer. Any psychiatrist will tell us that when we are pent-up and tense, and in an agony of spirit, it is therapeutically good to tell someone our troubles. When we can't tell anyone else-we can always tell God.
Prayer puts into force an active principle of doing. It's a first step toward action. I doubt if anyone can pray for some fulfillment, day after day, without benefiting from it-in other words, without taking some steps to bring it to pass. A world-famous scientist said: "Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate." So why not make use of it? Call it God or Allah or Spirit-why quarrel with definitions as long as the mysterious powers of nature take us in hand?
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