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No dead ends
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
It was spring term of my senior year of college. I had been commissioned to do the graphics for a CD cover, in addition to my normal coursework. But, the record company emailed me to say that my design was inadequate for production. The central image, a photograph, had very poor resolution, and the client couldn’t locate the original picture or the negative to rescan the image. Where was I going to get another idea, quickly?
When faced with a problem, I find it natural to pray, but in this case I felt desperate. I could only manage to beg, “God, please let the client find the picture so that I can just rescan the image and make this situation right! I don’t have time for anything else.” After much searching, however, the client was still unsuccessful in finding the photograph or the negative.
I felt disappointed that God had not answered my prayer. But later I realized that my prayer lacked a necessary humility in order to be truly effective. I was too busy telling God my situation and predicting the outcome of my prayer to even consider that God might have a better idea for me.
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Ginger Mack lives in Elgin, Illinois, United States.
