“We may lose this house,' I said, as much to myself as to God, 'Maybe my sons won’t grow up in a big place with four bedrooms and three bathrooms and a swimming pool. Maybe we’ll have to go live in a house like I grew up in, with two bedrooms and one bathroom. But it didn’t hurt me; it was a happy place.’
Now, prayers that work, in my experience, are the ones that bring us to listen as well as we speak, and in my prayer I was hearing something. Still, I knew where my greatest fear lay.
‘What really matters to me now, Lord, is what happens with my sons. And if it’s best for them to grow up without plenty – if wealth is a danger to them instead of a privilege – then please make that happen. Help me show them what a man does when he gets knocked down, the way my Father showed me –‘"
An excerpt from the book “Living the Braveheart Life: Finding the Courage to Follow Your Heart” by Randall Wallace
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