2:18 AM

Widow Wen

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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