Believe me when I tell you it remains hot. Even in the early hour when I walk a bit, there is little air movement except what I generate in progressing from this point to that one. So the walk is short, and you can believe that also.
“Lord God, be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget”.
Any brief reading of the historical books of the Bible shows us they did forget quite quickly. Judges, for instance, tells us again they lost their way and the lord punished them, by sending enemies to take their crops and enslave them, and then “They cried unto the Lord, and He heard them”. And sent relief, a judge who led them to overcome the enemy. One, for example, was Gideon.
What reminded me of that is what is going on in or country today. We forget the harsh times, the work involved in achieving, the effort we needed to reach some goals. So the article in the Sunday Chronicle tells of pranks sweeping the nation. A site, PrankNET, in its bio said, “this was a prankster chat room doing the most epic pranks you have ever heard of in your life.”
The article reports mostly motel and hotel guests who are called to do the most outrageous things, such as breaking the mirror, smashing a window, throwing a mattress out of the window, setting off alarms or fire extinguisher systems, etc. The cost runs into real money, and no takes the blame. Hotels and owners pay the damage, and this is regarded as FUN.
Indeed,
“Lord God of hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget”.
And the commandment tells us “That we do not scheme to get (or destroy) our neighbor’s possession, but help and be of service to him in keeping it.”
May the Lord direct and teach us.
GPD 7/15/09
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