Lost Colleague.

I heard during the night that a former colleague - who is much younger than me - has lost his fight with cancer.
My heart sinks every time someone dies who apparently does not have a personal relationship with the Saviour. I pray that I am wrong, in his case. I do know that one of his closest friends is a committed Christian. 
It is so odd to pray retrospectively: "Dear Lord, I pray that he did have an encounter with you."

It can be so hard, in the midst all of the positive answers to your prayers, to see one such where that answer has been an unequivocal 'no'.