The Prayer Box

So I am sure that you all are aware of the book "Redeeming Love". Needless to say, I like it a lot, and recently read it for the second time. Great picture of how completely God loves us, how He will fight for us, how He will wait forever for us, how He forgives us...
Anyway, there was one part in the book that stood out to me, and it was something strange... but, anyway, one of the characters had a hatbox filled with scraps of paper which were all her prayer requests. She wrote down each one, and stuck it in the box, waiting for God to fulfill the petition. I used to do that...
Okay, this is dorky, but at my parent's house I slept on a bunkbed, and I had the lower bunk (ask Janalee or Jenny about collapsing the bunk on top of me, or me leg lifting the bunk board with them on it! (who needs a gym??)) Anyway... in the rafters above me as I slept I used to keep a small pad. I am a natural worrier. It used to take me at least a good hour and a half to fall asleep. I would lay there in bed look up at the bunkboard above me and over-analyze everything that happened that day, everything that I hoped would happen the next day, everything that I wished had happened! It was ridiculous!
I don't know where I first read it, but someone in a book... maybe Elizabeth Elliot?? suggested writing all the prayer requests that you have down. Even something as simple as writing them out was an act of realease. Then pray over them, and let go and let God have them... totally.
So that is what my notebook ended up being. When I would lay in bed at night and think through everything in my life, when I would come to a place of worry... there it would go on the list, pray about it, release it, one less wrinkle to my brow. Also the coolest thing is that every time that I would go to write something else on the list, I would look over everything else, and realize things that God had already answered! Then I could cross them out with a date, and show God's faithfulness. Great encouragement!
I don't know what happened to that list. I think I found it when I was moving to my current house, but I haven't seen it since then.
Well, since reading that book again, I thought to myself that I should use that again! So I have got a shoebox (it says 'club zone' on it; is that sacreligous?), and have spent most of the last hour and a half filling it full of prayer requests. (I didn't realize I had SOOO many things that I am currently asking God for! Wow!)

p.s. I made the box this morning... and already I have had to go fishing for one of the notes... God answered a request! (Curious? okay, I guess I'll tell you... David is going with me and my sister to Africa! David's words: "was there ever any doubt?" my prayer request: "make it clear - no doubts" My God is faithful!)

I think you should make a prayer box too!