---WE BELIEVE IN PRAYER~

--"To you I lift up my eyes...."
----[PSALM 123:1 --

---This is a true story from the time of the Holocaust -- one that feels relevant for today.

--Several women and men were hiding in the same basement in a city in Europe that had been overrun already by the Nazis. These Jewish survivors had each lost spouses friends and children. They were angry with God. While they hid, they decided to put God "on trial.."

They began to talk in the early evening, making arguments for how God must not exist, why God cannot possibly be loving toward us, how God had abandoned them--they had ben faithful to Him These survivors argued into the night. They cried and yelled, and they often disagreed with each other.

After several hours had passed, it looked---through the thin basement window where they all were hiding--that the sun would soon be coming up. One of the assembly turned to the others and said, "it is almost morning. We should prepare for our morning prayers." ~~ And they did.

"Lord, even when I cannot understand how something so bad can happen to me, or to those I love, God, I will praise You. ~~

--ODB/JMS~