Fearless in Prayer

In the introduction to Catherine Marshall’s A Closer Walk, her husband of twenty-three years, Leonard LeSourd, writes about their marriage in 1959: Catherine had huge adjustments to make. She sold her Washington dream house to move to Chappaqua, forty miles north of New York City, so that I could continue to commute to my job at Guideposts in the city. My children–Linda, ten; Chester, six; Jeffry, three–had been through a deeply unsettling two years, adjusting to a variety of housekeepers. They had mixed feelings toward moving into a new house, and especially toward “the new Mommie that Daddy’s bringing home.” Catherine’s son, Peter John, nineteen, was going through a period of rebellion at Yale. Catherine and I had so many things to pray about that each morning to read the Bible and seek answers together. Her current journal lay open beside us in these pre-dawn prayer times, recording our changing needs, His unchanging faithfulness.

From Catherine Marshall, A Closer Walk (Ada, MI: Fleming H. Revel Co., 1986), 102-103.

“When you pray, go away by yourself, all alone, and shut the door behind you and pray to your Father secretly, and your Father who knows your secrets, will reward you.” Matthew 6:6 TLB