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The Daring Claim"Do not let your hearts be troubled.
Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house there are
many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go
to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there
you may be also. And you know the way to the place where I am going."
Several years ago I
heard then Vice President George Bush speak at a prayer breakfast.
He told of his trip to Russia to represent the United States at the funeral
of Leonid Brezhnev. The funeral was as precise and stoic as the communist
regime. No tears were seen, and no emotion displayed. With
one exception. Mr. Bush told how Brezhnev's widow was the last person
to witness the body before the coffin closed. For several seconds
she stood at his side and then reached down and performed the sign of the
cross on her husband's chest.
In the hour of her husband's
death, she went not to Lenin, not to Karl Marx, not to Krushchev.
In the hour of death she turned to a Nazarene carpenter who had lived two
thousand years ago and who dared to claim: "Don't let your hearts be troubled.
Trust in God, and trust in me."
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