Shade Tree Wisdom 5/28/15

Shade Tree Wisdom 5/28/15

          Meteorologists have been keeping records for 120 of rainfall, and this is the wettest May in that length of time. Houston has received 7.54 inches in May so far and the month is not quite over.

          Meanwhile reservoirs and lakes are nearly full, and the vital  Edwards Aquifer is at the highest water mark it has been in three years.    

          The amount of water falling amounts to 35 trillion gallons, the amount the mighty Mississippi discharges over the course of three months.

          So, in this historic moment, may I offer this prayer for those who travel?

“O Christ, whose voice the waters heard,

And hushed their raging at thy word.

          Who walkest on the foaming deep

And calm among its rage didst sleep;

O hear us when we cry to Thee,

For those in peril on the sea.”

LSB 717,2

          So drive safely in the rising waters.

5/28/15