THE POWER OF CHANGE
Dear Michael: Just this morning I was reading from the Congressional Record, April 26, 1990, about the 38th Annual National Prayer Breakfast. In the meeting President Bush made this comment: “I am convinced that the 1990’s will be the decade of the rebirth of faith and hope.” “As one example, I met this week with Father Calciu, a Romanian Orthodox minister. Father Calciu has spent 21 of his 64 years in jail. A third of his entire life in prison. And in fact, it was while in prison for opposing the government that he found God. And once released, he risked his freedom by preaching a series of Lenten sermons. And for that, he was imprisoned again and tortured beyond belief. And yet, Father Calciu had faith and he refused to break. He was sentenced to death. And as he stood in the corner of the prison yard, praying for his wife and son, awaiting death, it was then that…
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