This is Revive Our Hearts for Tuesday, June 2nd. I'm Nancy DeMoss Wogamuth. In just a moment,

we're going to continue the conversation we began yesterday with my longtime friend Judy Douglas

about loving prodigals. But before we pick up with that conversation, I want to take just a moment

to acknowledge the images and the news that we are

all aware of here in the United States over these last few days, including last week the

brutal slaying of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a man created in the image of God,

loved by God and loved by his family, it's senseless,

it's horrific.

And in the wake of that, we're now seeing an outpouring of violence and chaos and destruction

in many of our cities and neighborhoods.

As I'm listening and talking to others, I'm hearing a variety of emotions,

and you have likely felt them yourself. There's deep sorrow, fear, confusion, anger, injustice in any form,

angers God, and it should anger us as well. It can be really hard in a time

like this to know what to say. Words fail us. But as believers in Jesus, we know that he cares

and that we are called to care and that even if we don't know what to say, we can pray. In fact, we took time

yesterday on our daily videocast called Grounded to just cry out to the Lord in prayer on behalf of all

those involved and on behalf of our cities and our nation. And we think this is such an important time that our team has come together and decided that

we're going to preempt the program that we had scheduled to air tomorrow here on Revive Our Hearts.

And we're going to devote the entire program to pleading with the Lord, asking him for wisdom,

for compassion, for direction, and for healing for the great hurts and evils and wounds in our society. I hope you'll join us and gather some

others to listen as well as we cry out to the Lord at this very troubled time in our nation.

Now, as we get ready to continue this conversation with Judy Douglas, I know that there

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