I recently had a friend whose teenage granddaughter was missing for four days. They sent out a message through Facebook asking everyone to pray. We did.
I could imagine the pain the parents were experiencing. My heart felt frozen in the fear of what might be.
The next Facebook message read, "H_____ is home safe. Don't ask me any questions, but keep praying."
Our natural desire is to crave details. But what they need is prayer and silence.
Notice Paul uses the word "study" in the directive, "study to be quiet and to mind your own business" (1 Thessalonians 4:11). A quiet spirit does not come naturally to most of us. We sometimes crave "to stick our nose" into other people's affairs.
But God simply says, pray.
