Evan Almighty...Something to think about!

Have you ever seen Evan.  It's on TV and we started watching it in the middle.  There is a part where Morgan Freeman is playing God.  He comes to Evan's wife at a restaurant and asks how she is doing and she wants to know what to do with a husband who says God told him to build an arc.  So he asks her some questions.  Which I think are wonderful and apply to us all today. I guess earlier she had prayed that their family could be closer.    This is what he says:

"If someone prays for patience, do you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If they pray for courage, does God give them courage, or does he give them opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for their family to be closer, you think God zaps them with warm, fuzzy feelings? Or does he give them opportunities to love each other? " 


Isn't that so true.  I have prayed for patient for years, and I think I have many opportunities to be patient.  I just loved that quote and I think it something we can all remember as we are praying for something.  It all takes work, He will not "zap" us with what we need, we are given opportunities.