FRANKLIN GRAHAM, A FAVORITE OF MINE

If you watch Greta Van Susteren’s program every day, you will know the name Franklin Graham. He recently showed some of the shoeboxes his company, Samaritan’s Purse, gives at Christmas–boxes filled with goodies and toys--to thousands of children who would not have any Christmas otherwise. The money for these boxes comes from people all over America and perhaps other places, and total in the millions of boxes by this time. Of course, the boxes also contain Scriptures from the Bible.

 But on a recent show of Greta’s, Graham, who happens to be a son of Dr. Billy Graham, stated in essence that what this country needs particularly this Christmas, is a national call to prayer for our country. We have never experienced a political election as the present one that is full of turmoil. He is right, of course, and deserves the Nobel Prize for Peace. But the Norwegian Nobel Committee does not usually award the prize to such a Christian as Graham. That is a sad outlook on life.