February 8, 2005

[Rev. Doc]

Hearing The Cries

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
James 1:27

The composition teacher asked the class to write about an unusual event that happened during the past week. Little Johnny got up and read his essay.

It began, "Daddy fell into the well last week..."

"Oh, my!" the teacher exclaimed. "Is he all right?"

"He must be," said the boy. "He stopped yelling for help yesterday."

We are surrounded in the church, in the workplace, in our community with people in need crying out for help. Sometimes the cries stop and we assume they're now all right. The truth may well be that they have grown weary of seeing their pleas unanswered.

Prayer: Ask the Lord to always help you be sensitive to the cries around you.

"If you live in a graveyard too long you stop crying when someone dies."
~Annonymous

[Felix]

I feel bad for laughing about that story. Anyway. Great point, Doc. Thanks!

[Hephzibah]

Dont worry, I laughed at it too
Must be my Aussie humour

Anyway, very good moral and all too true. Definitely something to think and pray about.