A Prayer
Dear God, I know you love me and want me to be happy. But please, don't send kind people to give orphans chocolate. Chocolate is hope in a bleak world of wrongdoing and ill will. Beyond their own good logic, an orphan's heart will fill with gladness when the chocolate arrives. And when it is gone, they feel their heart shrink with hunger again. That hurts more than words can say. You didn't mean to be unkind. You thought it would be a blessing—your boon of joy. But the truth is, Sir, that she will grow to hate you every day she goes without. The most bitter betrayal of Heaven is forcing an orphan into conflict within the shadow of her heart. Dearest God, recall the champions you sent her. Do not leave her to suffer endless rage at the bottom of Crystal Lake. Please. Endless hope and empty promises are not your plan, Kind God. Empathetic God, you who bring the Savior to show the way would never allow such a thing to happen to your faithful yet starving servant. You who sho...
