Angry Birds

Have you played the game Angry Birds? It's filled with different situations where graphic birds try to blow up green pigs. Silly, I know, but it lead me to think about how we can pray.

The targeted pigs appear to be protected by glass, wood, and stone fortresses, often very difficult for the little birds to penetrate. While playing the game with an eight year old little boy, we discussed the tactics he should take when launching the attacking "angry birds," in order take out the fortresses and earn points by blowing up the taunting pigs. We came up with specific ideas and they worked!

It came to me that this was a good example of how to pray about taking out the green pigs of mortal mind. We don't need to start praying in a massive launch of scattered prayer, but instead, we can be lead to pray logically and thoughtfully about how to counter any entrenched, stubborn, or lingering lie about ourselves or anyone else. The right idea will come to us through focused, specific prayer, because we can see any dire situation as God sees it. Untrue. Not impenetrable. There is no power apart from God, and that power is laser-like and swift to reveal the nothingness of mortal mind, error. The birds of our prayer can easily and successfully blow up those unreal green pigs.