Musing: Response to Launch of Prayer Site

Response to the Prayer Blog has been overwhelmingly positive and supportive -- thank you! What a nice confirmation that if one steps out in obedience to God, others will naturally be blessed in the process! I received some helpful feedback and questions:

• identify which entries are "prayers" and which are "musings",
• include the Scripture references from which prayers are written at the end of each post (previous posts have been updated to reflect these changes).
• Where did the title of the blog come from?

When looking at a title, it was either Deep Calls to Deep (from Psalms) or Doors to the Sea (from Job). "Or Who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb? -- when I made the clouds its garment and the thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'?" Job 38.8-11

These verses record part of God's response to Job's questions regarding his confusing circumstances. I began to understand that God is much more grand than we imagine -- the bounding and pounding surf abruptly halt at the command of God! Being here at the Oregon Coast, it is a constant reminder that God is not unaware of our circumstance -- we are to simply come to the One who created the Doors to the Sea and lay out our requests and praises. We may not get an immediate answer; but we can be assured that God knows our situation and has established parameters on our circumstance: Thus far shall you come, and no farther! Our God is faithful and will see us through.