FRUSTRATED FATHERS PRAY TOGETHER

A distraught father goes to his Rabbi and says, “I raised my son to be a nice Jewish boy. I took him to synagogue every Shabbat. I sent him to Jewish day schools and Jewish summer camps. He was surrounded by Jewish boys and girls his entire upbringing. He was born and raised Jewish, yet he married a gentile girl and converted to Christianity. Why, Rabbi, Why?”

The Rabbi replied. “I wish I knew the answer. My son, too, is now a Christian after years of Jewish education, Torah study, and living by all the laws of our faith. Let’s pray together and ask God for an answer.”

The two men stood together in the Rabbi’s office and began to pray with unmatched fervor. Rocking back and forth, hands raised in the air, begging, beseeching, and wailing, “Why God, why?!”

With a clap of thunder and a bolt of lightning, the men hear a voice from above. God speaks. “Oy. I have a son, and my son too…”

Oops! Shout out to Tom C. for "enlightening" us about an error in a recent Daily Prayables:

"In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is the shortest day, not the longest, as written under the picture."

PRAY TO BE AN ENCOURAGMENT

Pray for my husband and I. We have 8 kids brought into a second marriage 25 years ago. We have not seen 3 of the kids in 25 years due to their biological mother's influence. Pray we can be a witness encouragement blessing as we deal and cope with the death of my husband's youngest daughter Sandra 33 yrs. old. She was a believer and collapsed in her husband's Sean's arms and died on Dec 31 evening. Pray for Sean's salvation. They have one son Eliott 4 years old.

 - Darene