January 8

CHARITY is digging even when all hope is lost

God is love...  Perfect love drives out all fear.  ~ 1 John 4:16, 18

In 1988 a terrible earthquake in Armenia killed 30,000 people.  Minutes after it hit, a father ran to his son’s school building and found it completely flattened. 

Remembering that his son’s classroom was in the back right corner of the building, he went there and began digging furiously.  They told him it was hopeless, but he kept digging.  In the 38^th hour of digging, he heard his son’s voice calling, “Dad!” 

Incredibly, a tiny wedge shape had formed, leaving just enough space for his son and thirteen other boys to survive. 

The son said to his dad, “I told the others not to worry.  I knew you’d come for me and then they would be saved too.” 

That beautiful story is a kind of parable of how we should trust our heavenly Father, whose love for us exceeds all imagining.  ~ Mark Link, S.J.

What gives some people so much trust?  As Knights, are we prepared to trust in God even in the gravest situations?

I will never forget you!
I have written your name on the palms of my hands. ~ Isaiah 49:16

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