We not only prayed your prayers, but our own as well. Widows and orphans from our eight care points (around 700 in all) lined up. We had 12 foot washing stations on that hot day in Nsoko. Rupert, had been widowed just three weeks earlier and took it upon herself to not only print them, but to pray over them, sometimes with tears. Later, when our vision trip participants arrived, Shawn had 116 of the prayers printed out, cut, and laminated. A few were even written in Siswati (the local language). Many of your prayers were profound and heartfelt. I didn't have the details worked out, but after landing in South Africa, when I got on line and checked, there were 101 prayers on the blog! What a thrill to see that number. I was tempted to hedge my bets by putting down a lower number. But how many to ask for? The number "100" popped into my head - a crazy number given the fact that the blog averages maybe five comments a day. I promised to pray the prayers over them when we arrived there. So, as I was leaving the next day for Africa, I felt led to ask you, my blog readers, to write down personal, individual prayers for the widows and orphans we'd be seeing in Swaziland. We see so much of it, we become desensitized. Too many of us feel impotent in the face of pain. It started out as a blog about pain, but by the time I'd finished writing, it had turned into a call to action.
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