"If you ask for bread the Father will not give you a stone"

So I watched the show "Columbine" this afternoon while Oliver slept on my lap. It was only 45 min...but it made me cry. It was Rachel's dad talking about her and the shooting. I am pretty sure that I have seen it before, but I watched it again. There was a part in there about him talking about how sometimes you ask God for things, but the way He answers is not always how we would want him to. He mentioned the part where Jesus was talking and said, "Ask and you shall receive...If you ask of my Father bread, He will not give you a stone." I always wondered about this scripture some. I mean just b/c you ask God for bread doesn't mean you will get that. So I listened on to see what he had to say. And He explained it pretty good. No...God does not always answer how we want, but Jesus emphasized that the Father would not give us a stone. And many times in life we see God's answer and we think "why are you giving me a stone God?" BUT--Jesus said that He would not do that--it is us looking at what we have been given as a stone. We need to learn to look thru what we have been given and focus on what He wants us to do with what we were given...not to just zone in on what it is and end there. So...basically...we don't always get the bread that we wanted, but we aren't going to get a stone either...it may look like a stone...but it isn't...and it may not be what we want..but it is what God thinks we need--and if we are willing to step back and look at what we have been given and instead focus on how God would have us use it, after awhile you may come to realize that it is in fact not the stone that you thought it was.