A Need for Prayers!
It seems like prayer is an essential element again in the world beyond ourselves. Terrorist attacks in Turkey and the increasing number of deaths and attacks in Iraq have really hit me this past week. As Karl Barth was often quoted as saying- Study (and preach and pray) with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.

But one of the real sadnesses of the whole week is that the American press (and no doubt public) is far more interested in Michael Jackson than in the people dying at the hands of terrorists. Or there are those who want to equate President Bush with Saddam or bin Laden. Whether we agree with Bush or not (and I tend to be a fairly strong Democrat) he is not in the same league.

So I will be praying. Not much else to do. But that is a lot!