St. Jude and my friend Tony

Morning: Psalm 66; Isaiah 28:9-16; Ephesians 4:1-16

Evening: Psalms 116, 117; John 14:15-31

Installing timing-chains on GM 350 engines was mind-numbingly boring. The saving grace was Tony. I was there for a year, saving for school. Tony, the man next to me on the line, was a ‘lifer’. He spoke often about St. Jude (whose day it is today), patron saint of lost causes. Tony was a lost cause and God rescued him, he said. An unlikely evangelist - hard-living loner - Tony strengthened my conviction that no-one is outside God’s love. God even speaks through you, though some days you may think yourself a lost cause. I often thank God for Tony.