Living the Message Fed. 7

Help Was There

To the objection "I prayed and cried out for help, but no help came," the answer is "But it did. The help was there it was right at hand. You were looking for something quite different, perhaps, but God brought the help that would change your life into health, into wholeness for eternity And not only would it change your life, but nations, society, culture." Instead od asking why the help has not come, the person at prayer learns to look carefully at what is actually going on his or her life, in this history, its leaders, its movements, its peoplesm anns ask, "Could this be the help that he is providng?" I never thought for this in terms of help, but maybe it is." Prayer gives us another, far more accurate way of reading reality than the newspapers. "Think of it!" exclaims Bernanos's country priest. "The Word was made Flesh and not one of the journalists of those days even knew it was happening" [The Diary of a County Priest].

I call to you, God because I'm sure of an answer.
So --answer! bend your ear! listen shar!
Paint grace-graffiti on the fences;
take in yout frightened children who
Are running from the neighborhood bullies
straight to you.

PSALM 17:6-7