Why is prayer important?

• Prayer quiets our hearts.
• Prayer clears our vision.
• Prayer activates our faith
• Prayer makes things happen; and
• Prayer cleanses our soul.

Truth be told, prayers created a big change in my life. I believe that prayers are much more powerful than wishing stars but of course t is for you to decide. Wishes are prayers as well, silent prayers coming from the depths of our hearts. Though, wishes and prayers work in a different way. If you wish upon a star you say those words, you whisper those words by mouth and wait till it comes true on the other hand when you pray you put your hearts in to it, every word and put your faith onto God. Wishes can also come true if you put your whole faith into it and leave it all to our creator. You can wish without any falling stars just complete faith to God.

As the bible said “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.” These are one of my favorite words from the bible, for it had helped me through tough times. Those were the words that I kept remembering during some of my darkest days and thus, I kept on praying and praying each day and night, until one day I had opened my eyes to see how close me and God became. I told him every single bit of my worries and troubles then I pray for it to be solved, truth he was there and guided me all the way, for that I am truly grateful that he was there, grateful that I was created and grateful that he was our creator.

Thank you dear Lord for bringing me to earth and letting me experience how great living this borrowed life is. I am forever grateful.

My name is Serenity Faith Saito, I’m 17 years old. I have always been dreaming of becoming a great author someday or be the youngest director in the industry. Though, as a young lass you can never erase those dreams of finding true love and meeting your prince charming. To be honest, I already found him, but I don’t think it would be ever possible for us to meet nor see each other for he is a famous actor and model in another country, Japan. On the other hand I am just an ordinary girl living in an ordinary life, wishing and praying to meet him. I know I am naïve but I don’t care.

Do you know how I fell in love with such a guy? I’m actually an anime fanatic myself. Everyday of my life I escape from reality to go inside the world of fiction. It was the only way for me to survive, clinging on the door that leads to possibilities which was only located in my dreams and stories. I was always afraid to go outside those dreams for I know I will be hurt. I had crushes only on anime guys which were all charming with both looks and personality, that’s what kept me from falling in love with boys in my class. They were the reason why I wasn’t like the other girls who were squealing on cute boys that would pass by. I learned a lot through anime, I had develop a personality which was hard to break, which to them was something so fragile, something so breakable that they were afraid to hurt nor touch me. I had friends who protected me in so many ways. They were one of the best. I can’t say though if all what I’ve shown was an act, I myself was confused. I guess it was a mask that had molded itself on my face, a mask of deception.

When I stepped on 4^th year I was fifteen years old by that time going on sixteen. I met a girl who was an anime fanatic like me. Her name was Rikku. I became fond of her and we created a bond of sisterhood. She was like my sister. At some point I can see myself in her, she understands me and knows what’s deep inside my heart and thoughts, we were like twins. Yes, twins, that’s what we would say to our classmates. We were twins born in different wombs, though, of course twins have differences and ours was the way we see the world. Like I said I was living in a world of illusions while she, knows the boundaries of reality and fiction. I was full of dreams and she was had balance both, the possibilities and her wishes.

One day, I decided to come out of my world for a little while, try to look at the people around me and there, I saw on the magazine was his picture. Frankly, I had seen his photos already but I never did pay attention to him. I was after all infatuated it anime boys. He was one of those actors in a live drama of one of my favorite animes. He looked a lot like the character that he was portraying but I his anime look alike never caught my eyes, some other character took it by accident.

As I was saying, I saw his picture in one of my anime magazines, they were featuring him. I told myself that I should put my affections to him for a while then get it back later. My friend told me he was one of his crush. I joke her by saying he was mine as well. The most surprising thing was she gave him up.

The next day some of my classmates saw his picture asking me to have it. NO WAY! My friends approached them by defending me saying “No, not a chance they’re married!” as a joke. My classmates just gave in and gave up on him. I don’t know why but I felt relieve. Each day, I and my friends would talk about our pretend boyfriends and life with them. I then realized that my crush to this guy grew stronger till it developed into like. I wanted to take back the feeling but it was too late. I couldn’t, it was too late. I like him so much that now I think that I love him. Funny, people would tell me I’m obsessed with the guy but I’m not! I’m truly am not. If I were then right now I must have rebelled from my parents and flew to Japan myself just to worship the ground that he’s walking at. They don’t understand that do they?

Right now, I’m doing my best to finish my studies and pray that someday I would end up working at Japan and be able to meet him. I never forget to pray for him as well. I pray each day that he would have a reason to smile, and to live on for each day.  At the moment I’m in college at the moment with the same school as Rikku, I’m taking up film making and she’s studying animation. We usually would meet up during the end of our class. Sometimes, I would ask her to go to my dormitory and we would eat together.

Speaking of dormitory, my dorm mates are cool. I saw one of my friends in elementary, it was truly a surprise but we had gotten close. She’s like a sister as well, though, she had to move out for some reason but we keep in touch. I met Saskia next, she’s kind-a mature that’s why, Megumi (the one that I’m telling you about) kept her calling Okaa-chan (Mother in Japanese language). 

God has reasons for putting people in our paths, purposes that they must fulfill in order to help others be a better person as well as themselves. Kia-chan (Saskia’s nickname) is a J-rock fanatic like Megumi-chan. They say their friend introduced them to world of rock in Japanese version and boy were they head-over heals with their music. I’m more of a J-pop lover, oh well it’s better than nothing.

I do hope that we would meet these people that we adore so much. I do pray from the depth of my heart that this wish would come true. Not a single day past without me pestering God with those impossible wishes, I know that this wouldn’t come true but I still hope and gave all my faith to go.

I thought as long as I have time I will pray and continue to do so just to make my wish come true, but I never knew that my time for praying for it was short. He answered as quickly and it changed not only my life but my friends as well.