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Today is sunny, seventy degrees – and gentle breezes.
October’s last days in Dallas are worth remarking upon – and remembering. The
roses have returned for a colorful farewell appearance; the late summer
additions are, however, tired. The bachelor buttons are bending because of the
cooler, damper days. And the sun goes down now by eight PM. It’s not exactly bundling up weather,
but it is cooler – and so pleasant. What a difference 20 degrees can make!
Remembering that heat in
all this sunshine, shows how quickly I can forget. As I look over what I have written about weather the past four years, I see several times the
weather was more than aggravating – it was scary.
We are coming up on the anniversary of a storm of literally
biblical proportions – Sandy. By
Monday night, October 29, 2012 she came ashore – above Maryland and slamming
into New Jersey – Wow . . . Hurricane Sandy has
been so off my radar screen! When the news stops covering the troubles, I
forget as quickly as I forget the heat when the weather cools.
Do you
remember fearing for what she might
do? (From Boring to Superstorm)
I do – I was preparing a lecture on
Revelation 7. And what did
the very first verse in Revelation 7 say?
After
this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back
the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on
the land or on the sea or on any tree.
Knowing our children were in the path of the biggest storm to hit the East Coast
in almost two hundred years. I wondered – worried: What if one of those beings drops the corner?
After all, in Revelation 6:8 they were given power to destroy one fourth
of the earth. Sandy’s swath was huge and brutal, from New York to the Great
Lakes; a newscaster said it would affect one in four Americans, one quarter,
of the US population.
In the Dallas Morning News, today, a story from the AP
confirms the scars from Sandy are still deep – thousands of Americans are still
trying to fixed their wreck homes, and billions of federal aid hasn’t reached
those it was authorized, months ago, to fix.
Here are ways we
can remember and still help, including through the subsequent disasters that have happened in
the past year: Pray & give.
Earlier Blog: Hoping
for the Best
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