Normally, I would be focusing on Labor Day, but there is something that I want to share that is close to my heart....as some may know we have had a severe drought here in Texas...and because of that we have had several fires break out. And fires are dangerous and tragic things, but I just found out today, that a family in our congregation has been forced from their home because of the fire.
Usually when you hear of tragedy, you think "how sad", but when it happens to someone you know; it becomes greater....in a sense to paraphrase C.S. Lewis... "Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf believer"....our prayers become deeper and more intense, our desire to help becomes more purer, our focus becomes more clearer....all of these things because we genuinely see that we are not isolated from anything, but that it can happen to us and to those that we love.....
So I hope that those who are reading this on the East and went through Irene, those of us here in the Southwest are going through the fires, that if we know someone that has been affected by either, that we who are their friends can have ourselves motivated to help in one way or another, so that we can be Jesus to them and that they can see that He is there, even in the midst of tragedy....
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