Prayer changes your Brain

Brian Williams last night and tonight at NBC Nightly News has a segment on how Prayer changes the Brain. Tonight they also had on a skeptic who said the brain is changing all the time, so the fact that it changes while praying shouldn't be a surprise. However, in my own experience believing in miracles while not "Expecting miracles" might be useful in my view.

What I find is the single most important thing about prayer is realizing that you "CAN" be helped by God and Life rather than just expecting to always be a victim your whole life. If you cannot accept help from life, you might die right now, you might die tomorrow you might die or be injured anytime.

However, if you believe God can or will help you then you are open to HOWEVER God decides to help you.

My favorite story about this was told when I was little in the 1950s:

A man who was in a flood and standing on top of his barn because everything else has washed away in the flood.

A man going by holding onto a log said,  "Here get on my log and save yourself!"
And the man on the barn said,

"God is going to save me!"

And the log went by. And soon a man on a raft came by and said, "Here. Jump on this raft and save yourself."

Again the man on the barn said, "God's going to save me."

Then a man and his wife in a boat came by and said, "Here jump in the boat and save yourself!"
And the man on the barn said,

"God is going to save me!"

Then a helicopter came by and told the man, "Get into the sling and we will save you!"

The man said, "God is going to save me."

The man soon drowned and went to heaven and asked God, "God! Why didn't you save me?"

God looked at the man and said, "I sent the log, the raft, the boat and the helicopter! Why didn't you save yourself?"