God is not a puppet on a string. We live our distracted lives unaware of Him for the most part. If you wrote to the Queen of England, and requested a castle on a hill, is it reasonable to think if she doesn't do so, she is not the Queen, nor has the power to do so?
I felt like there was something different about this prayer for the lad. Those who did so, did so with a desperate humility, out of deep compassion. This was part of what moved Him. Miracles are not the suspension of reality or the laws of nature, they are expressions of God's compassionate intervention. For that, and for those who did sincerely pray, we ought to, and have a right to be thankful, and, in a free country, a right to say so. When it is done, I ask those who may not understand this, or live with a different world view, that these expressions of thanks are sincerely offered in keeping with the joy of the event.
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