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"Every prayer gets answered, Baby. Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes the answer is 'not yet.'" Tess said, understandably to Murdoch, as she places her hand on his. "Sure you've had setbacks, and you'll have others. It's not important how many times you've fallen. It's how many times you let God pick you up that matters."

"But, how did you know what I was praying about?" Murdoch asks, looking perplexed, at this kindhearted ebony-colored elderly woman.

Patting his hand, she replies, "God heard your prayer. That's why He sent me to you."

"God heard my prayer! Who are you!?" He asks next, with a look of disbelief on his face, he leans forward to study her more closely.

"I'm a messenger from God," She replies, simply. "I'm here to tell you that He loves you. He wants to deal with what you can do right now. Because 'now' is all you can change."

After hearing Tess' revelation, Murdoch begins feeling his emotions rise deep within him, as he fights to hold back the tears that are welling up in his eyes. Who would ever believe that a true messenger actually visited him, from God, as an answer to his prayer? Who would really believe that he would hear it himself, that God really does love him? And that He wants to deal with whatever change I can do right now, he wonders.

'What is it God wants to help me change?' He turns again to his heavenly messenger to ask, but only to find she is gone. ~ TITANIC-TBAA FanFiction, "Bon Voyage, Titanic!"

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