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"It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it." - C. S. Lewis

I’ve been scarce from the blog lately. My apologies. I’ve been busy in the real world with a couple of major real life crises – four in fact. There are a few people that I know that are suffering greatly right now and needed a little help. Unfortunately, I am not the most gifted person when it comes to pastoral care - never have been. Three of the four things I was helping with are going well, one isn’t. In baseball a .750 batting average would make me a millionaire. Baseball is, however, a game.

I want to post a modified version of something I wrote for one of the situations I encountered in the past couple of weeks. There may be another post later, but I have to decide whether or not it’s wise to venture there on this blog.

I want to take a few minutes to consider pain and suffering – especially the pain and suffering of innocent people.

The post below is a prayer request – here’s the link. I got this message today:

I have no doubt that the prayers of you, your family, and every other person who knows about this- are what is getting me through this. And it is those same prayers that have brought us this assistance as well.

What assistance, you ask? They’ve found an attorney that will at least give them some advice. This is great news. Hopefully, this new attorney is heaven sent, to counter the diabolical origins of the whole situation. [To those that know the whole story, this has long been seen as a story with diabolical origins.] If we keep at the prayers then the truth will eventually come out. That’s mainly what I’ve prayed for in this situation myself; that the truth comes out, that a lawyer be found, and that the family remain strong throughout this.