Prodigal: Why beat around the bush, I really like that one.

Me: Glad it is pleasing to the eye.

This is from the book Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey

At a conference on evangelism sponsored by Billy Graham in Manila, a Cambodian man mesmerized the audience with his story of daily meditation. Under the Pol Pot regime he was held in a concentration camp like those depicted in the movie The Killing Fields. Believing he had little time to live, he wanted to spend time each day with God, preparing for death. “Even more than deprivation of food, even more than the torture, I resented having no time to meet with God. Always guards were yelling at us, forcing us to work, work, work. ” Finally he noticed that the guards could get no one to clean out the cesspits. He volunteered for the wretched job. “No one ever interrupted me, and I could do my work at a leisurely pace. Even in those stinking depths, I could look up and see blue sky. I could praise God that I survived another day. I could commune with God undisturbed, and pray for my friends and relatives all around me. That became for me a glorious time of meeting with God.”

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: Psalms 78:7 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org