Don't let Satan pffft it out

© 2012 Julie Crane All rights reserved

My prayer list to God continues to grow. Some people have been on there a long time. And the concerns most recently have been dire straits ones. So many that I've sometimes bundled my prayers into sections: Lord, these are all the friends I have battling cancer... Lord, these are all the friends I have needing jobs... Lord, these are all the people I know in strained relationships...

Not to mention anything and everything that's on the evening news...

But with every prayer, whether in general or detailed and specific - I want you to see my shaky little index finger rise up and point to the sky.

Light is our hope.
Light in the darkness.
Light in the fear. The tiredness. The don't-know-what-to-do.
Light in the believer's heart who can't quite believe the impossible is possible.

Don't let Satan pffft it out.

The little child in and out of the hospital suffering intense cancer treatment pain.
Don't let Satan pffft the light of hope out.
Don't let Satan dissuade us from the hope God gives and extends in and through us.

See my shaky index finger pointing to the sky.

For everyone still needing good, steady employment.
For everyone battling an addiction.
For every young couple longing to create a family but can't.
And every strained relationship.

I'm still gonna let it shine.
I will not let the light of Christ be dimmed.
Despite all of this.
I won't let Satan pffft it out.

No.