In The World But Not Of It

Topics: Prayer, Will of God

In Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Ivan
endures all the horrors of a Soviet prison camp. One day he is praying
with his eyes closed when a fellow prisoner notices him and says with
ridicule, "Prayers won't help you get out of here any faster." Opening
his eyes, Ivan answers, "I do not pray to get out of prison but to do
the will of God." [Our Daily Bread, Dec 29, 1993]

Our Daily Bread, December 29, 1993