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Prodigal:\u00a0 I think I can catch that trolley.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 You’ve got as much chance as a grasshopper in a chicken coop.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Maybe I should wait for the next one and we can hear a story.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Sounds like a plan.<\/p>\n

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This is from the book<\/p>\n

With Christ in the Garden by Lynn James Radcliffe<\/p>\n

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I remember in my youth that I had this fear of pain.\u00a0 I did not know whether I could take it, if it ever came to me.\u00a0 Then at twenty-six of age it came.\u00a0 I had to undergo an operation to be performed by the great surgeon Dr. Frank Lahey, of Boston.\u00a0 I had pneumonia at the time, but to save my life they had to operate on my chest.\u00a0 Because of my condition they could not give me a general anesthetic, and the local anesthetics of those days were far below their present development.\u00a0 I had to go through this operation completely awake and with the endurance of severe physical pain.\u00a0 I prayed as I approached it, and, in the place of pain, God was strangely near.\u00a0 He gave strength sufficient even for this extreme ordeal.\u00a0 I found myself saying to the surgeon through clenched teeth, “Go on, go on.”\u00a0 My memory of that hour is not merely of pain, but of the wonderful discovery that when it came, with it came the resources from God to bear it.\u00a0 “Not that the pain is of its sharpness shorn, but that we find it can be borne.”\u00a0 There was a lifelong deliverance from the fear of pain, not that I would desire it, but that the fear of it was profoundly altered and conquered.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Do not be afraid.\u00a0 Even in your pain the Lord will be with you.\u00a0 That is a blessing because others will not have the Lord.<\/p>\n

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Proverbs 8:6<\/p>\n

Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the openings of my lips shall be right things.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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