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Today has closed with a prayer meeting at which our church prayed for the preservation and healing of a twelve-year-old who has severe head trauma as a result of being hit by a car while he was riding to school this morning.
His family are with him in Adelaide.
We are in Mount Gambier 450 kilometres away.
The next 48 hours are considered vital.

Our collective sense of longing for the return of the Lord Jesus has grown very real.
It is such a privilege to sit and listen to the prayers of a church for an hour and experience their ministry to the soul.

We also found comfort in the truths expressed by the answer to this question which begins the Heidelberg Catechism.
It is a comfort which this family have, and which sustains us all in times such as these.

Question.
What is thy only comfort in life and death?
Answer.
That I with body and soul, both in life and death,
am not my own,
but belong unto my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ;
who, with his precious blood, has fully satisfied for all my sins,
and delivered me from all the power of the devil;
and so preserves me
that without the will of my heavenly Father, not a hair can fall from my head;
yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation,
and therefore, by his Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life,
and makes me sincerely willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto him.

And songs like help as well.
http://youtu.be/Kfyb02BUsUQ?t=25s