Devastation

"Or who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,
when I made clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
and prescribed limits for it
and set bars and doors,
and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stayed'?
- Job 38:8-11

It's really hard to get a handle on the widespread death and destruction in LA and MS all the way over here in sunny CA. You hear about the streets flooded with water mingled with sewage and vermin not to mention the bodies of those who have perished. When the flood waters recede whole swaths of roads, bridges and highways will have been washed away making traveling to work pretty near impossible. Now throw in the looting and gunfire and you have a land that is going to be uninhabitable for some time to come.

We have a couple visiting from MS who have been attending our church for a couple of months now while the wife takes care of her ailing mother in CA. Thay have been unable to get in touch with their family back there and they are worried sick as you can imagine.

I know it goes without saying or asking but please continue to intercede for the couple at my church (Peggy and John) as well as all the people affected down there and that God will bring good from this terrible tragedy speedily.