Nothing has come up in my wee garden yet---but since it's only two days since it was planted, I won't give up hope yet. Well, sometimes we give up on praying about that fast, don't we?
One person who really needs prayer is dear Sister Wen, a Yunnan lady Annelisa and I rescued from drowning when she fell into deep water a few years ago. She and her husband, a meek, talented man, were house church leaders in the little town of Louping, one of our out-stations. They served us a marvelous feast with plenty of wild herbs the last time we were there in Louping (two or three years ago?). Then last year her husband fell off a building he was constructing and she was thus widowed. Life has been very hard for her since then, and a Buddhist man is pursuing her. I think she's is "deep water" again and she says she would like to come east and see us.
I often remind myself of Bro. Lawrence's word " Count as wasted any day you have not spent in loving God." That has helped me as much as anything.
LOVE REVEALED
Night intercepted by startide;
Anguish exchanged for bliss;
Death yeilding life everlasting--
Have you known LOVE like this?
Wounds of His love heal my heart wounds;
Rebel knows pardoning kiss;
Fear turned to glorious praises--
Have you known LOVE like this?
Darkness is turned to bright dawning;
Bitter is changed to sweet;
Weakness is transformed to power--
What can with LOVE compete?
Longings so deep none can utter,
Thirst for Life's water spring,
Hunger for LOVE never-failing--
All met in Christ, LOVE's KING ! 2-8- 2000
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