FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Mark 11:22-23  So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.  For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will come to pass, he will have whatever he says.”

In recent days since the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, we have seen the profound suffering and pain experienced by the Haitian people.  Before the disaster the people were already aware of how it feels to live in poverty.  But this profound tragedy has been so many times worse.  
As was expressed in a poem in Mitch Albom’s latest book, Have a Little Faith, he used this verse by Robert Browning Hamilton:

I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And ne’er a word said she;
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me.

Prayer:  Gracious God, we pray that the faith of these people and the spirit they have reflected to so many, will help them continue to be assured that as the song goes, “Nothin’s gonna keep them stranded,” with God’s help.  Amen.

Carol Morrill