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Dear Lord. I know that every day has 24 hours blessed with sun, moon, and stars. Yet, every day, many people barely survive and others who starve I know that every Christmas many will buy, buy, and buy; many will give, give, and give. Yet millions will be penniless, familyless, homeless; many will beg, hoping only just to live. I know that our world brings joy and grief, cold and heat, sowers and reapers, sorrow and pain. Yet there are those among us who are careless, heartless, and live daily only to cheat and to gain. The destructive forces of nature do not know the difference between Christmas and other days. For lack of heat, hurricanes might cease, but will not halt at the site of our stop signs or even delay. ************************************************************** Dear Father God, realizing all these things are true and that neither I nor my fellow humans are any match for Mother Nature, please grant Planet Earth this Christmas Season a season free of massive and destructive earthquakes like the one in Haiti a few years ago. Let any small earthquakes that might occur not be strong enough to trigger a large tsunami like the one in Indonesia a few years ago. Let your comfort and peace surround those in California who have lost so much. Many escaped the fire only with the clothes on their backs, not to mention their lost loved ones. The sister of a friend in our church perished in the Paradise fire. By the way Lord, I thank you for the rain that came to my region in Northern California about two hours ago. And Oh Dear Lord, as you very well know, time will not allow so great a list of terrorizing perils. There have been countless devastations the world over. My Heavenly Father, I will not ask for more at this time; and I ask these things in the Name of your Son Jesus Christ. Amen. 11212018PoSoupContest, Christmas Mourning, P.S. Awtry
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