Thoughts of a Servant

I’m not proud of it, I got so caught up in the Holidays that I didn’t keep up with the news, but there was really really really awesome news in November.  I wrote a blog in October about these Iranian women that had been imprisoned for their faith… We wrote letters, and so many people were praying for them.  But it clearly shows that God is so Good.  Because they were set free on November 18th, 2009 after 259 severe days in prison.  They may still face the judges of their country, so they still need our prayers.  But this is such an event to rejoice.  They never denounced their faith even in the face of death.  What powerful women of God.  Ahhhh! I am so excited.

http://www.elam.com/articles/Released/

I have a fantastic friend, Mahtab, who is the nicest person you’ll ever meet.  I love talking with her, and she has enlightened me on many things as she grew up in several locations in the middle east.  I have been trying to learn Farsi so that I can speak with her, but I have yet to understand their first letter of the alphabet. Haha.

Its amazing to me, how similar the religions are.  She sent me a link of one of Ghandi’s famous speeches, and I really had to listen into it because he speaks like Yoda in a sense .  But it seems like he was a man who believed in God without even knowing it.  He believed in Love, peace, etc.  And thats how we would solve our issues– But one step further would be me believing that God IS Love, and He is within us.

Its also amazing how devoted and well-read Islamic followers are.  They are diligent in their prayers 5 times a day, for their fasting, for their beliefs.  We can definitely learn something from that type of devotion.  But my heart still aches for the girls, Maryam and Marzieh, who have been imprisoned for their Faithfulness to God.  They have taken their diligent ways of praying, fasting, and boldness from the Islamic faith and applied it to the Love for Jesus.  I pray for their safety.