In this powerful blog, you will feel the heart of Mehnoush as she cries out to God to restore and bring freedom to her Homeland, Iran. This powerful prayer will be featured in our new book, "Dear God, please bring freedom to Iran." There is incredible power in prayer and it is amazing how God uses our heartfelt prayers to shape and change history!
Dear God,
I’m writing to you because I have
a very special request. This isn’t your typical prayer because I’m not asking
for something small. I’m also not asking for you to intervene and restore peace
in the growing number of war torn countries, to end world hunger and poverty,
to heal disease, or to make my dreams come true (although all of those would be
awesome)…but I am asking
for a miracle. In fact, this is the biggest, most significant, and most important
thing I’ve ever asked for.
When I was still a child, my mother used to
tell me, “A clean white painting canvas
is bestowed on everyone by God at the beginning of his/her life. Once he lets
everybody have enough paint and a brush, he whispers the word “goal” in his/her
ear and then lets us be free to be the artist of our own life.”
As I grew
up and learned more about the real meaning of life, goal and freedom, I
realized life was not simply a room with two windows but there are thousands of
them … Then I imagined looking out of the window of desperation and I felt like
I was about to cry. I imagined if I looked out of the window of hopefulness, I
could change the whole world. Accordingly, when I imagine looking out of a
closed window, then I could sense how dingy and dark the world would be … And
when I opened the window, I then realized how stunning and massive the whole
world was! But we don’t live for a long time though … I don’t have the time to
look at every window of life. That was why I decided to take the open window,
but it seems the window before my eyes has been shut for years and I just can’t
get to see the farther horizons of life!
My world in my motherland has been dingy dark and for years and I didn’t
realize it until I grew up.
Yes! It has been for years
that the window of hope and freedom has been closed to my motherland, Iran, and
it has been darkened by a thick mist indeed. My dear Lord, that very young
child who used to imagine a massive stunning world with open windows has now
realized that all the windows have been blocked by such thick darkness for
years and that we are all captivated within the frame. There’s neither any
smell of light nor freedom. We’ve been living in complete exile, fear and
palpitation for years. Freedom to us is nothing but those childish dreams
inside us which have also been growing along with us all. My dear God, now I
can realize how important freedom was; now that I made it out of all those years
of captivity and palpitation to live in a land of freedom and democracy, I’ve
finally recognize what this term really means.
Dear God, we had a
revolution 40 years ago for more freedom; simply because we didn’t know what
freedom meant?! Because we were never a thankful nation! We simply believed
freedom was nothing but free electricity and water in our houses or free bus
tickets. Because we thought Islam was more sacred than freedom. We lost freedom
and got an Islamic revolution instead. Now, after 40 long years we have realized
freedom was not that easy to let go of recklessly. Without freedom, there’ll be
no books and authorship, no understanding and perception, no science and
knowledge, no hope and brightness, no economy and development, no literacy and
improvement and no life and future; in fact there would be nothing but you
sitting in a corner passing life without a single understanding of how the rest
of the world is and who we have been!
My Dear Lord, we are all
thirsty for freedom but there’s nothing around except the dream of it. My dear
God, it is vividly clear that Iranian nation have all passed your test as
assiduously as possible. These days, no one can sense the scent of life and you
and only you are the only one who can deliver this nation from captivity.
There’s no light left for us, we have no hope and we all beg you to give us
back our lost freedom. We have learned enough all these years that we shouldn’t
simply ignore what we already have and that we should not go backward while
everything else proceeds ahead; we have all learned we should never exchange
our freedom for anything. Almighty God has created all of us equal so that we
can decide freely and live our lives as we wish. We aren’t supposed to
underestimate this precious word of “freedom”. Freedom is our life compass
helping us moving ahead and we only get to understand how watching out an open
window and seeing the massive stunning world feel!
My dear God, I truly love you and I know you
can hear my heart beats and you know well enough this is not just one single
individual’s request and shout, but the request and shout of millions of other
people captivated on a deserted island waiting for a hopeful captain’s great
ship to save all of them. My God, you are our true captain and now millions of
people are crying out for your help. Please come and free us all from this
deserted island.
Your humble Child
Mehnoush
