Katie's prayer: Veggie Tales' "Larry-Boy to the Rescue"

When I realized this was the song for today, I kinda snickered. I mean really, almost every time a veggie tales song comes up, I always think “How will veggie tales really relate to my life?” But this song, I had no idea! Majority of it is instrumental, I can really only fully understand the first and last line of the song, and naturally, I can’t find lyrics online - apparently there’s two songs by the same name.

So I decided to go for the tactic of listening to the song ad nauseum until I was hit with an epiphany. Because of plans I had tonight, this repetitive listening had to be done during work. And since I didn’t want to disturb the person I have to share my office with, it had to wait until after she left. Reflecting back on my day, I realized something. I was more productive when I was listening to this song. Maybe it’s the upbeatness of it all, maybe it’s the “I can” attitude that you hear from Larry, maybe it’s because I had background noise without the distraction of lyrics to sing along with.

Mini-revelation just now.... The song starts out with “It could only be one thing.” While typing the “maybe it could be this” sentence, I heard that lyric. God was trying to tell me that no, it wasn’t any of those things - there was only one thing that was the reason for my productiveness. Immediately after questioning what that one thing could be, I got the answer. It’s because, in a way, I was praying while I was working. While I was working, I was listening to the song, trying to figure out just what those lyrics were and just exactly what God was trying to tell me. I talked more to God in that hour and a half than I did for the rest of the day combined. Logic would say that because my mind was distracted - praying and all - I should have been less productive. And I think that’s what keeps me from doing that everyday. Logic gets me. But what I experienced today was the exact opposite - God gave me the grace to be more productive while praying. I think it’s time to pray more while at work.