With so many hurting in Oklahoma, I am praying for those who have been impacted by severe tornadoes, who have lost everything material. I am praying for those who have lost loved ones and especially the parents of the children who have been lost.
A couple of years ago, I published a post 'if nothing changes' which included these words:
How is it reasoned when the healing does not manifest? When the marriage fails? When the job ends? When the aloneness persists? When the ministry does not increase? When the child ends up on drugs? When the child dies? When the weeping endures longer than a night? And, although the joy comes in the morning, it is within the context of the present reality and in light of the fact that the prayer was not answered exactly the way it was hoped or desired. Where is the comfort?
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I heard someone say … ‘When someone loses a husband, you call her a widow; when someone loses a parent, you call them an orphan; when someone loses a child, you don’t call them anything – because it is so unimaginable, so painful and so grievous that there is not a word to describe it.’
We grieve with those who grieve.
Yet, even as I pray for the people of Oklahoma, I cannot
help but to continue thinking of and praying for people everywhere who have lost
loved ones this year
Long after these stories have faded in focus from the front
pages of newspapers and magazines, after they have been replaced with another ‘lead
story’ on the evening news … there are people who remain … still grieving, still
hurting, still trying to pick up the pieces of their lives and find some degree
of normalcy again.
Please join me in praying for all of those who are hurting …
all over the globe.
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