One of my dear friends is serving as a missionary in an Asian province and we have received a special request to pray for a premature infant who has captured the hearts of those with whom this friend works. The infant is, as of yet, unnamed. The infant mortality rate is so high in this area that most infants are not named until it is evident that they will survive. It was not all that long ago, historically speaking, that people in our country also refrained from naming their children until they had survived for several months or even the first year or two. Living in a state of uncertainty and refraining from attachment to a child as a means of self-preservation must be devastating. One can imagine that despair is the average feeling in such a time and place.
