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\"09-19-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Howdy Prodigal, who are you with today?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 These are my friends from the jungle and we decided to go shopping.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 It is nice to meet you and I actually have just heard a story about a jungle from the book Voices of the Faithful with Beth Moore.<\/p>\n

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Drought conditions in the state of Orissa, India, caused many deaths one year.\u00a0 People looked to the village priest to perform rituals to appease the spirits, but even the priest suffered as he helplessly watched his malnourished wife die after birthing her fifth child.\u00a0 Fearing his dignity would be tarnished for not saving his wife, he decided a greater sacrifice must be made.\u00a0 He choose to offer his baby daughter as a human sacrifice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the father prepared to cremate his wife, he commanded his sister to throw the baby onto the burning pyre.\u00a0 But the aunt had sympathy for the child and tossed a bundle of rags instead.\u00a0 For 15 days, she drugged the infant to prevent her from crying.\u00a0 But the angry father found out and torched his sister’s hut for deceiving him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The aunt escaped with the child and ran miles through the jungle to a mission hospital, where she abandoned the baby.\u00a0 Later, she returned and identified the child.\u00a0 After three months, a Canadian Baptist missionary was given custody of the infant, who was named Lakki Joy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lakki thrived under the missionary’s care.\u00a0 Through her guidance, Lakki came to know Christ as her personal Lord and Savior.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lakki shares the gospel with her people group, the Soura at every opportunity.\u00a0 This once unwanted baby has become a testimony of God’s love and is truly a joy to others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Never count your story over, no matter how unwanted\u00a0 to may have been at the beginning!\u00a0 With God, all things are possible.<\/p>\n

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James 5:11<\/p>\n

As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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