Ukraine Prayer # 541

Ira Kapitonova
By this I know that you delight in me:
my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.
But you have upheld me because of my integrity,
and set me in your presence forever.
Psalm 41:11-12
Two stories that are too moving not to share.
An 88-year-old man who left his home in the occupied part of Ukraine and walked across the "division line" until the volunteers picked him up. The man refused to get Russian citizenship, which then made him pack his backpack and seek refuge. He will be taken to a shelter in one of the regions of Ukraine.
 
An elderly couple crossed the border into Ukraine, taking a detour from the occupied part of the Kherson region. The wife is blind, and the husband can hardly walk, but they needed to cross the two-kilometer pedestrian zone at the border. The wife crossed the border first and was picked up by the volunteers, yet she refused to go without her husband. She waited for him, felt his face with her hands to make sure it was him, took his hand, and only then could the volunteers finally bring them in.
 
It is both inspiring and heartbreaking to see what the people from the occupied territories are ready to endure to get to the territory under Ukraine's control.
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Pray for those stranded unwillingly in the occupied zones.

Al Akimoff and the Slavic Ministries Team
 
Today's picture – the elderly couple crossing the border. Photo shared by Sumy regional organization of the Red Cross Society of Ukraine.