Welcome to the Hackberry House of Chosun. My name is Bob, and I'm reading from a devotional book that's put out by Voice of the Martyrs. It's called Extreme Devotion. This book catalogs the struggles of God's people over past years. Today, we're visiting old Romania and a person named Angela Cazacu. Angela Kazikou was just an ordinary woman, living in Romania during World War II, when the Nazis invaded. All too quickly, life for Jews and Christians became a daily terror. Angela kept busy stealing Jewish children from the ghettos and smuggling food and clothing to female Christian prisoners in the prisons around her city. Later, when the Nazis were driven out of her country and the Soviet army invaded, Angela was still busy spreading the message of God's love by handing out Russian Bibles and New Testaments in train stations full of Soviet soldiers. When Pastor Richard Wurmbrand was a prisoner in the Tirgul Okna jail in the winter of 1951, he was severely ill. His skeletal body shivered from the constant cold of the worst winter on record. Each prisoner was allowed only one blanket, and food was scarce because no one was able to get to the prison through the heavy snow. But it was during this bleak time when Pastor Wurmbren received a package containing desperately needed food and warm clothing, which he gladly shared with others. The package that he thought must have been delivered by an angel probably saved his life. Once again, Sister Angela, of course, Angela meaning angel in Romanian, was busily going about her father's business. Ordinary, did we say? An ordinary woman? Maybe. But God delights in using ordinary people as his angels of mercy. From Colossians 3.12, therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Years ago, in response to the increasing news coverage of random acts of violence, a bumper sticker began to appear that suggested practicing random acts of kindness. An act of kindness or mercy to a stranger may be as seemingly insignificant as giving up a prime parking place at a shopping center or taking the time to make eye contact with the clerk at the store. However, God can use you to transform even the most ordinary act of kindness into a powerful gift of grace in someone else's life. Ask God to help you commit a random act of kindness in his name today. You may never know it, but you might be someone's angel. For your own copy of Extreme Devotion, it's not a free book, but do email the people at Voice of the Martyrs at thevoice at vom.org. This is the Hackberry House of Chosun, and Lord willing, we'll talk again soon. Bye-bye.