God Answers ’Knee-Mail’

As I was driving past a church the sermon topic on the sign board caught my attention: “God Answers Knee-Mail." These titles are often expressed in catchy terms in order to attract people to come on Sunday and hear the whole sermon. I understand this phrase “knee-mail” has been around for a while, but this was the first time I had heard it. It caught my attention because the truth is that God hears all our prayers. That is the promise of Jesus: “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find; knock and the door shall be
opened to you” (Matthew 7:7).
 
What does that promise mean? First of all it is an assurance that God is present in our lives, in all our ups and downs. Second, it tells us that God wants us to communicate with him all our needs and those of our loved ones and of the larger world. And God will certainly answer our prayers – not always exactly in the way we expect, but according to his will and in his time.
 
Therefore, one thing we can be assured of is this: unlike human being who will either delete or ignore some of the thousands of e-mails coming into their inbox, God hears all our knee-mails, and he never presses delete!
 
Sr. Terry is the Executive Director of RENEW International and a Dominican Sister from Blauvelt, NY.