“I doubt you will ever sing again.”The specialist at UCLA left Jo Franz alone in the examining room with tears filling her eyes, stunned by his matter-of-fact statement. Then a peace calmed her soul. That still small voice within said, “Trust Me even though you’re frightened.”

When a friend heard her pastor was getting a divorce, she wept. “I was not weeping for their children,” she said. “ Christ.” She felt sorrow for the children, but her deepest concern was for the Name of Christ.

A man in southern Sudan suffered for years from terrible migraine headaches. He was desperate to be rid of the headaches, so without a doctor nearby, he went to the local witch doctor.

My husband was to speak at a medical meeting in Florida, and on our way, we stopped in Atlanta to see our son. About 2 a.m. my husband and I both awakened, and he said, “I am chilling.”

A friend called and told me she would no longer be a part of our small group. I hung up the phone and realized I felt rejected. What did that say about me as leader? Unfortunately, I was taking it personally.

The late Wesley Duewel said he recalled that every time he came home from college or the mission field his mother would weep for the Chinese and the people of India in family prayer. She’d pray, “O Lord, save those precious people,” then she’d be sobbing.

Ruth Bell Graham tells of awakening at three o’clock in the morning, and the name of one she loved dearly flashed through her mind. She knew there would be no more sleep for her that night. She lay there and prayed for the one who was trying hard to run from God. In the dark, her imaginations ran wild.

Karen often wrote prayers for her wayward daughter in her journal. One day Karen failed to put the journal away. Her daughter came by and happened to read the prayer. It make her furious