June 23rd is International Widows Day.: The Plight of Widows Around the World – reveals that there are an estimated 245 million widows worldwide, 115 million of whom live in poverty and suffer from social stigmatization and economic deprivation purely because they have lost their husbands.

Please say a prayer and an encouraging word today.

God bless and comfort our widows.

Whilst we pray, let us also search ourselves in all honesty. How many widows have we oppressed directly or otherwise? Some of us have taken their children,promising to send them to school only to turn them to slaves, some of us have taken or "bought" their farm/land forcefully or at a pitiable fee,yet some of us are owing their late spouses and have refused to repay the debt to the widow left behind.

There are lots of societies and NGO's today catering for widows. Locate one today and touch a wdows life positively.