The Grandfather's Table Grace
In 1987, Harold Müller sat at his kitchen table in Leipzig, East Germany, and gave thanks over a meal of bread and thin cabbage soup....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Chronicles 16:34.
In 1987, Harold Müller sat at his kitchen table in Leipzig, East Germany, and gave thanks over a meal of bread and thin cabbage soup. His wife had died two years earlier. The Stasi had confiscated his pastoral library. His son had not spoken to him in a decade. Yet every evening, Harold bowed his head and repeated the same words from 1 Chronicles 16:34: "Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever."…
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