Article November 6, 1989 Issue

Great need, sure response

The Christian Science Monitor

I have a friend who is convinced that on a specific night a few years ago she woke from a sound sleep and was compelled to pray because of the desperate need of someone in another country whom she didn't know at the time. Later, upon learning of a person's torture in another part of the world on that particular night, she was sure she knew why she could not go back to sleep but had to pray throughout the night.

I would be tempted to dismiss this person's reasoning except for the fact that I know how she has responded to her own children's needs over the years. She has persuaded me that a parent's love is sensitive to human need.

My own son in a rather different way has brought me to a similar conclusion. More than once, now that he's no longer a child, he has wondered out loud how his mom or I happened to show up just when he needed help the most, or just when he was doing something he shouldn't have been doing. I remember the same feeling with my own mom and dad.

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