Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have ordained strength, because of your enemies, that you may silence the enemy and the avenger. (Ps 8,3)

Dear friends, I try to post a new essay here every Saturday and Wednesday evening, but today I could not. It is "the time of war" (Eccl. 3:8) and my thoughts go out to those who are fighting and suffering in Ukraine. Please let us pray for them. Prayer has power, even from the mouths of babes (and that is how helpless we sometimes feel). But they too can build a wall against adversaries and stop the fight.

Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Flash forth lightning and scatter them;
Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.
Stretch out Your hand from above;
Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters,
From the hand of foreigners...

(Ps 144,5-7)