Shade Tree Wisdom 9/19/08

Strikes me we need one another, and IKE showed this. But isn't that how the lord made it and planned it to be? He said to the first man, "It is not good that the man should be alone, I will make him an helpmeet for him". So God created the first woman, and established the family. We, of course, since we are sinners, have managed to mess things up. Really to be expected.

Then along comes a massive storm like IKE and sort of makes it quite clear that we do need each other. In Switzerland scientists have conducted an experiment that did not do what they had hoped. But they will finally learn that creation is really out of their reach altogether.

So we clean up, and that will take weeks and in some cases years to undo. Meanwhile, there are people who take advantage - as there always are - and so the police make extra effort to prevent looting. Neighboring cities have bolstered their ranks to keep property safe.

Laws are made for one reason, to keep us safe. Well, we learn, often slowly, but we do learn.
And that leaves us with lessons learned, often at great cost, and things left to do. So slowly, slowly, Texas and other states recover from IKE, thanking God it was not worse, amazed that we survive that, and other disasters as well as we do.

The Psalm is still true, "to keep thee in all thy ways, lest you dash your foot against a stone".
So may God yet hear our prayers and save us for eternity through Jesus, our Savior.

GPD 9/19/08