I'm reading a daily devotional from a book called "Venite" - a book of daily prayers. This is the nightly prayer... but with a different perspective than we ever have in the states.
“Keep watch, dear Lord with all who work or watch or weep this night, and give Your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, we pray, and give rest to the weary; soothe the suffering and bless the dying; pity the afflicted and shield the joyous; and all for your love’s sake.”
This carries different meaning as we go to bed in Haiti tonight. There is a different sense of tending the sick and giving rest to the weary; of soothing the suffering and blessing the dying; of pitying the afflicted and shielding the joyous. We’ve seen all of those things in a day’s ministry here in Haiti. Every single one and those prayers bring names and faces and voices to life when I pray before I go to sleep tonight.
Those prayers carry a different weight than they do in my daily life – and for that reality, I’m grateful.
So Lord, would you do those things for the people of Montrouis. And would you shield the joy and give rest to our weary friends Kerry & Joy and their kids.
Would you be the God of this place and change the lives of these people tonight.
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