Dear God, please send my angel.

Here is an excerpt from a book called "With God in Solitary Confinement" by Richard Wurmbrand. This is the man who started Voice of the Martyrs.

He was in prison for 14 years under communist rule in Rumania, 3 of those years were spent in solitary confinement. Over the course of those three years, he wrote sermons in his head and memorized them as poems, with hopes to one day preach them. He remember over 320. The book contains about 20.

This excerpt was deeply convicting to me. You can find it on page 142-143:

I remember the tragic word in Philippians: "No church communicated with me." (Philippians 4:15). Why are we abandoned by the Western Christians?

Their reason, probably, tells them that they could do nothing practical for us. But why do they follow reason, which Luther called "the beast" and not love? Why don't they come to free us, with the risk that they will be defeated and suffer the same fate as us? Their strategists may tell them that the balance of power is not in their favour. But since when has love consulted strategists? Why does not a group of a thousand Western Christians tell us: "We have not forgotten you. We love you"? It may be a foolish enterprise. But from our side it was also a foolish thing to bang on a cell door when our brother was beaten [note: the book explains earlier this results in every prisoner being beaten]

And then, the Western Christians all have their guardian angels. Each has six wings, which means that they are prepared to fetch messages. Why don't they send their guardian angels to caress our weary heads and to tell us about love? I feel the nearness of such angels, but when I ask them where they come from they are nearly always from another prison cell or from a brother in Rumania itself. Can angels from the West be stopped at the Iron Curtain? How big are their wings? Are they the wings of a chicken, which cannot fly, or the wings of an eagle?

Where is the unreasonableness of love? If these Christians are partakers of the divine nature, why are they not also partakers of the foolishness of God?

Foolish questions, dear brothers and sisters. If I spoke to you tonight it was to teach you one thing: dare to walk in the foolish, completely unreasonable, paths of love! St. Augustine said: "Love God, and do what you will." Love, and your foolish actions will be wiser than the wisdom of men. Amen