Anabela Couto de Castro Valente (Luanda, Angola)
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Sign Up TodayBlessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. - Matthew 5:4 (KJV)
I was raised in a Christian family, but I did not cultivate the habits of daily prayer or church attendance during my childhood.
After age 20, I began to embrace habits like praying, reading the Bible and other religious books, and reflecting with others on the Christian life. At that...
I can endure difficulties because of my unshakable faith in God.
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I join many of those who will pray for you as you seek to discern what you are called to be at this moment. May God grant you the courage to fulfill that calling. May we all open our eyes and see the misery, open our ears and hear the cries of God’s people, and, like God through the Lord Jesus Christ, be incarnate amongst them.”
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