Please Take A Moment And Pray...

I don't know why she's different.

But something about seeing her face all over the national news struck me to the very core of my soul. Reported as the latest of many of our fellow Americans held captive by Iraqi terrorists, Jill Carroll has very little time left. In fact, if the U.S. doesn't agree to release all female Iraqi prisoners today, this then, will be the day that Jill Carroll will take her last breath.

I watched yesterday morning as her mother, on behalf of herself, her husband, and Jill's sister, pleaded for her daughter's life. She was calm, poised, and very obviously proud of her daughter and her accomplishments thus far: but you could see the fear in her eyes. She said she was in shock; she said that Jill had told her of the possibility of this very situation arising, but that nothing can prepare a mother for something like this.

Jill is different because she genuinely cares about the Iraqi people - she's not just out to get a story. Please take some time today and pray for this brave and selfless woman. Pray that the God would Divinely intervene: that He would send the right people to free her from her captors. Pray that she will live to see many tomorrows, and that the Lord comforts her and her family in this trying time.

God Bless You All.

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