In our Bible reading
for today, the people of
· First
of all, they tell others what God has done for them (verse 8).
· Secondly,
they give praise to God (verse 28).
· Thirdly,
they give financially to God (verse 29).
· Fourthly,
they rejoice in God (verse 34).
This
was a major event in
Gertis Weissman was
among the prisoners in a Nazi death camp.
She recalled an episode one spring when she and her fellow inmates stood
at roll call for hours, nearly collapsing with hunger and fatigue. But they noticed that, according to Weissman,
“in the corner of that bleak, horrid gray place” the concrete had broken, and a
flower had poked its head through, and the thousands of women there took great
pains to avoid stepping on it. It was a
spot of beauty in their ugly and heinous world, and they, all of them, were
thankful to God for it.
What to do:
✞ Today write down a half-dozen or so little things, and thank God for them all week. (Yes, even all month.)
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