PRAYER AT THE MOMENT OF CRISIS
One biography I enjoyed a great deal this past year was Russell Baker’s Growing Up (published by Congdon and Weed). Baker is the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the NY Times. One of the big crisis events was getting into college. His mother had great faith that he would go to college and told him she’d been praying for him every night. Also, she’d poured herself into prepping him for a scholarship exam that was the only entry they could afford. He tells the story: Night after night she held the math books and conducted quizzes on geometry and algebra, laboriously checking my solutions against those in the back of the books and, when I erred, struggling along with me to discover where I’d gone wrong. Afterwards, when we were both worn out, she went to bed and prayed. She believed in prayer, in the Lord’s intercession, but not in the Lord’s willingness to do it all. She…
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