Grace and the evening news

The images intrude on my evening—rioters and looters burning buildings and plundering shops. Senseless ethnic violence. Tonight the television news was from Jakarta, Indonesia. But it could have been so many places, almost anyplace, really.

Sometimes prayer begins with a yearning to understand, as it did for me that evening.

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August 10, 1998
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