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John
Wotherspoon
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Sun: Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues: South
Asia Wed: East
Asia Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific
Frid: South
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America Please join me in praying for one part of
the world each day:
Jesus, today please bless the people of
East Asia
Wednesday December 19, 2012 Daily Blog John W Previous 2012 blogs
Dear Friends
These are days of sadness in the US as funerals are held for the children and teachers murdered in Connecticut
Fr Joseph Girzone wrote a beautiful reflection on this tragedy
Yesterday
I used that reflection at a doubly sad funeral service:
the placing of a 14 year old girl's ashes in the same place where her younger
sister's ashes were placed six years ago. The younger sister had died as a baby
of six months
As the plaque covering the hole in the wall was opened to take the second lot of ashes, it was like re-opening a most painful wound in the hearts of the girls' mother, father, brother and other relatives
Fr Girzone's words reminded us that the girls are always with the family, "just through the veil"
This Christmas will be a sad one for the US families and the family above, but may Christmas do what it usually does: give peace to the most troubled hearts and situations
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Today's
editorial in Ming Pao is entitled
Economic Considerations in Sino-Japanese Relations.
It can be accessed, together with my recording, at
this site, from about midday today HK time to late evening HK time
On this
19th of the month,
Jesus please bless
the people of Shanxi
(Please join me in praying for one
part of China each day of the month)
My Reading-Reflection-Prayer
menu for today.
Let's use this menu to help us prepare for Christmas, despite sadness and
trouble
Thank you for a prayer
God bless!
John W
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