The other day I went to this place in Prague called the Candy Store. It’s a place that sells American and British products and they have a lot of different candy, hence the name. It’s a great place for me to shop before English camps because I can get Reese’s peanut butter cups there and this specific candy is like edible gold at English camps.

I was loading up for the next camp on my schedule with Reese’s, Spree, Cheetos, and of course beef jerky to supplement the lack of protein on the menu at most camps. It was summertime and I noticed a little girl there with her grandparents who were buying her treats. It reminded me of when I was little and I would stay with my grandparents and they would take my brother and I as well as our cousins to the local drug store with a big candy isle and let us load up on whatever we wanted.

During the years when my grandparents took me to get candy it wasn’t possible to do this in Prague; they were still under the oppression of Communism. I am very thankful that this great evil is no longer controlling this city and these people. But the scars of Communism are still evident. Rather than tasting the sweetness of the Reese’s I want them to taste the sweetness and freedom that comes only from a relationship with Jesus.

I’d like to ask you in joining me to pray for the people of Czech Republic. Pray that they will come out from under the darkness spread by Communism and be open to the Gospel. Pray that one day they may taste and see that the Lord is good.