Helen, my house help, had told me that she and her husband are building a house in their home village. That’s normal; everyone has a home at home. Since she and her husband work at UCU, they’re far from the village, and land issues are common in Uganda. She recently had to make an impromptu trip home, because the guy working on the house had taken their money and done very little work, unfortunately also common.
So, Helen told me this, and asked me to pray for her. I was thinking along the lines of praying for restoration, that this guy would repent and return what he had taken. Truth be told, my thoughts weren’t entirely pleasant.
Not Helen. She wanted me to pray that she would be able to forgive, that unforgiveness wouldn’t spoil her celebration of Christ’s birth. Here I was plotting ways to get the guy to make reparations, and she was concerned for the state of her heart. Oh, were that I that faithful.
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