Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem
My best friend in the seventh grade, Judy, was a refugee from Red China. Her father, having business in Hong Kong, was able to get his family out of the country during the "Great Leap Forward", which means it was somewhere between 1958 and 1962. Judy was two years older than I was because she had to start her education in the first grade when she arrived. Nevertheless, she was admitted to the all-girls exam school for seventh grade.
Judy would have been at least 10 when her Dad rescued them out of China, so she was aware of what was going on. She confided in me and told blood-curdling horror stories that seemed unbelievable, but were tragically true. The worst one was that the starvation in China during the "Great Leap Forward" was so severe that people were eating their own babies. I just couldn't wrap my mind around that.
Jeremiah tells this same terrible story in the Second Lamentation. The Siege of Jerusalem was That Bad.
And yet, this heart-rending poem is still a neatly formatted Acrostic, 22 Verses, each starting with a successive letter from the Hebrew Alphabet.
How could a poet or songwriter even THINK straight under such circumstances?
And yet, Judy's Dad rescued his family, and tomorrow we will see a turn in the tide of this difficult Book.
Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.
"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)
God Bless America!
Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.
This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.
Hallelujah and Amen
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