Spent most of the morning w/ JO, checking out potential retreat places and in personal devotion. For a devotional, we went to one of small ponds around his house. Walking around, I ran into a small memorial monument for the 9/11 tragedy. Spent some time praying for all those who has lost their loved ones in the tragedy. Pray that not only the Lord would comfort their spirits, that they’ll, w/ this incident would come to know the Suffering Messiah, who is God of broken hearted.
This idea of Suffering Messiah really hit home – that when I prayed desperately, asking the Lord to take away all of my hardships and disappointments, to be escaped into the wilderness, detached from all human drama, the Lord whispered, ‘you won’t find me there; you will find me where the broken people are’. Lord, that you would use tragedies like 9/11 to show yourself to the broken…
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