From: Ira Kapitonova (Day 796 – posted late)
“Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”
Psalm 46:10
I was too tired last night to write an update, especially since the news reports were heartbreaking.
Yesterday, Russia attacked Odesa with a missile that came with a cluster bomb. They hit a popular location – a Health Trail, an alley with sports grounds, children’s playgrounds, and jogging tracks that goes along the sea, connecting the two largest beaches. This place is usually busy with pedestrians taking a stroll and enjoying the scenery. Is that a military threat?
They hit this location in the middle of the day, and the cluster bomb was intended to cause more casualties among civilians. As a result of the attack, four people and a dog were killed. Another man died of a stroke caused by the attack. 32 people, including two children and a pregnant woman, were injured. Six people are in intensive care now, and a 4-year-old girl is in critical condition.
I can’t think of words to describe my feelings. This missile strike was an intentional, cruel terrorist attack, but it didn’t scare us. It’s mostly disgust and fury that we feel.
Voice of Ukraine 
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30 April 1944
J.R.R.Tolkien wrote to his son, Christopher
“…I sometimes feel appalled at the thought of the sum total of human misery all over the world at the present moment: the millions parted, fretting, wasting in unprofitable days — quite apart from torture, pain, death, bereavement, injustice…
All we do know, and that to a large extend by direct experience, is that evil labours with vast power and perpetual success –in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in…
And though we need all our natural human courage and guts (the vast sum of human courage and endurance is stupendous, isn’t it?) and all our religious faith to face the evil that may befall us (as it befalls others, if God wills) still we may pray and hope. I do.”
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