Huff Expressions

In the Christian prayer, we ask of God. And surely this is central, for what good father does not delight in hearing and meeting the needs of his children? We hear much reminding about the need to praise and give thanks and confess and commune and on and on. All true — I know it by text and by practice. And I also know how prone I am to just asking.

A friend is lost. What can I do for one whose broken past revisits, embracing in his own life that which he despised in younger days; dreaming he can really make it right; bearing the weight of parent’s sin; picking it up again? What can I do?