Not like you’re gonna surprise God! I think God loves when I go – “okay God, I can’t find my keys – please help me find them.” Then when I’m silent and think I can find them on my own power.

Of course, you should pray for other things. And be thankful that your biggest worry at the moment is “please make my HD work” rather than “please send me food”. But yeah, God loves all of your prayers.

God wants you to pray about the big things, sure He does.

What He really wants though is a relationship with you, a deep, personal relationship. He wants to be your best friend which means anything you’d chat about with your best friend, He wants to chat about with you.

Sure we can get selfish and start to ‘use God’ as our personal valet, which is totally wrong, but really, do you think that a God who loves you enough to send His son to die for you doesn’t want you to ask Him where your wedding ring is (for example)? After all, He knows where it is and if it’s important to you, it’s important to Him.

I think sometimes God must get frustrated with me because I exclude him from the things I think are selfish. I ofen find that when I finally include him, he gives me the answer immediately as if to say “why did you waste all that time and effort when I could have helped instantly?”.

There is a danger in thinking that God is only there for the big things because that cuts our relationship with him down to just the times when we are REALLY in trouble.

There is also a danger in thinking that God is our personal genie – He’s NOT and he won’t let you get away with that!

We do need balance though and we need to not beat ourselves up over things which aren’t a problem!

btw will and i are thinking about playing settlers tomorrow night, wanna play?

Yep.
I know what you mean.

Have you read The Shack?
I’m almost done with it, and it has some really interesting ideas.

I realize that he even cares about little things. ie sparrows.

Hard question.