Yesterday was a fast day. Which is not to say that it went by quickly, but that, for religious reasons, I did not eat. The prayer that an individual says in the afternoon service on a fast day, within the final hour or two before eating, says, “Be near to our cry.” It quotes a verse from Isaiah 65 where God says, “Before they call, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will hear.”
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