The Last Prayer of a Man Who Wasted Everything

In 1921, a Welsh coal miner named Evan Griffiths lost both his legs in a tunnel collapse outside Pontypridd. His wife had left. His drinking had consumed every friendship he ever had. The mine company gave him nothing. He sat in a wooden wheelchair on the steps of Bethel Chapel, unable even to wheel himself inside, and prayed the most honest prayer of his life — not a polished prayer, but the raw gasping of a man who had squandered every good thing God had placed in his hands.…