Announcement:  Please pray for Bob & Carol Ryan as they make plans to travel
again to the Cayce family; they are the couple from Elwood, Illinois, who rented
a huge truck and somehow got it filled and delivered just before Christmas.
They have purchased a trailer now so they can spend more time in Thornton, and
will not only be delivering collected food this time, but will be spending some
time there, helping to repair houses.  What a terrific couple!

Finally, during Lent we read true stories of people who had suffered
difficulties without apparent help from angels, at least not the help they
needed to avoid going through these crises.  Why did this happen? we wondered.
Were some people more loved by God than others?  Was there a “magic prayer�?that
needed to be said in order to bring help?  Did only the saintly attract angels?

Hopefully, we decided that this issue was a mystery, one that we would probably
not understand until we entered Paradise.  But to close this discussion, I’d
like to leave you with a Good Friday passage that many of us have read, but
perhaps skipped its significance: 
Jesus was beginning his agony in the garden.  And knowing what was to happen, He
was frightened.  On his knees, He begged His Father to remove this suffering
from Him, if it could be done.  But His Father did not do this.  Instead, as it
says in Luke 22, 43, “an angel then appeared to Jesus from heaven, to strengthen
Him�?(some translation says, “to comfort Him�?.  Not to take away the
sufferings---which must, as Jesus knew, occur in order to complete the
plan---but to stand as witness and comforter for Him during this difficult time.

Can we not assume that during the times when we are in the pit, God our Father
has not abandoned us, but has sent us his angels to bear us up, and to bring the
grace we need to complete the plan?
Think about that this week.  Have a blessed Easter.  
For more stories of God’s love, check the website at:
www.joanwanderson.com

Have a good Easter,

Floppy