This week I’ll be heading to a place I’m not supposed to go.

For that reason, I would appreciate your prayers. Decisions are being made that will affect lives for years to come. Here at home that is true, but where I’m going, the conditions are much worse than anything we in America endure.

That’s not to say that difficulties in our own backyard are not painful, or that they’re less important. But in a world where poverty and terrorism reign, where people are preyed upon as if they were animals, and young boys carrying assault rifles can kill without accounting for their actions, it’s different.

So, for now . . . just for now, if you could pray for what happens from a global, eternal perspective, it may just change lives in a way that nothing else can.

I have no power. God is in control. Always.