} pass the prayer chain

last night at about 10.30 i started nodding off while doing my h3 tutorial, so i decided to put my things away and went to sleep. just as i got into bed, i heard my phone vibrating. but since it was an sms, i ignored it and told myself i can still read it the next morning.

so a few minutes ago, i woke up and i decided to check the phone message, and it turns out to be

"Pls pray for the korean christians in afghanistan who were doing volunteer work in the hospital. They will start to kill 9 of them at 1030 tonight. Pls pray for them n msg to as many ppl to pray so that God would strengthen them and turn the situation around. Pass the prayer chain"

I felt sick after reading that, and all I wanted to do was check the news, see if they are all right. so i went on google news and, after browsing a bit, i found this article: link.

thank goodness.

but please still pray for them. although they are still alive for now, at any moment that can change. even as i am typing this the situation could be changing. so i am appealing to you, as the IJ pastor used to say: whether you are christian, catholic, muslim, buddhist, hindu, freethinker, chicken, cockroach - please pray.

i also read another article that said that a korean christian group was the one who started passing the message to other christians to call for prayer. isnt it amazing how far it reached? ok, so maybe the christian group is pretty big and maybe they have contacts to other groups around the world, but... it's still cool.

and isn't it unreal, that as we continue our own lives in safety, there are others out there whose lives are at gunpoint? and there are others out there, the loved ones, who feel only worry and anxiety, every hour, every minute.

and from what i've read, none of the options that the US or Korean government have are that great at all. basically either meet the kidnappers' demands, or take military action. it will take a different kind of power, i think, to resolve the issue in the best way. a change of heart, maybe. something amazing.

so, please
pass the prayer chain.

2007-08-02, 4:23 a.m..
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