A QUOTE, A TEXT AND A PRAYER…OR TWO
A QUOTE
A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to make it breathe the doctor gave it a slight blow. The mother must have thought the doctor cruel. But he was really doing the kindest thing possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual lungs. But through suffering God strikes us in love. Then our lungs expand and we can breathe and pray. –Sadhu Sundar Singh
A TEXT
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to proper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.”
~ Jeremiah 29:11-12.
AND A PRAYER…OR TWO
Be merciful, O Father of all mercies, to your Church universal dispersed throughout the whole world, that all your faithful people may have grace to confess your holy name; and especially be merciful to such as are under persecution for their testimony, and their profession of the gospel; that as they stand fast for your holy Word, so they may be upheld by it; through your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ.