Meditations and teachings from the Bible and life
Well, for those of you on Facebook, you already know what I wrote there. The hurricane came through north of us, so we dodged the bullet in that respect. But oh, don’t think we didn’t get hit at all! The forces of nature are so powerful! That storm is still hammering people, all the way up the east coast!
I want to just testify to all the goodness God has shown us in these last weeks. So many things had to happen, and in a hurry, for us to be able to move from El Paso back to Florida.
Tuesday we put a contract on a house. It’s not what you see on the right. That’s just where we’ve been staying. But we think we’ve found the one for us here in Homosassa Springs, Florida.
What a contrast between El Paso Texas and Homosassa Springs! El Paso is a Western city. This is the Southeast. El Paso is desert. This is an area where boats and water are the main drawing card. El Paso is so dry. This is a place of springs and swamps, rivers, lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, heavy humidity and almost daily downpours of rain.
For over thirty years, I lived in Orlando, Florida. This tragedy really strikes home for me. As I’ve mulled over these events, I had some thoughts I had to write down… Continue reading “Thoughts on Orlando”
Writing the story about Olga made me check my journal from that year. I discovered a page where I’d written 14 answers to prayer that made that whole trip possible:
In a conversation the other night, someone shared how, being raised a Catholic, their impression of God was that He was really angry and was getting madder by the minute. As a young person, their response to this was to just think, “Well, if He’s already that mad, I might as well do whatever I want. I might as well sin more, because it’s already hopeless. I can never please Him.” Continue reading “The Right Prescription”