One of my favorite authors, Tony Jones, is working on a new book about prayer. He asked readers of his blog:
Do you pray?
So, you pray…
Why do you pray?
Here is my response:
One reason I pray, it that it helps me to organize my thoughts.
Another reason is because I have faith that God truly cares about me and what is going on with me and my family.
And yet one more reason I pray is to try to be an example to my son. I do want to be a good example, whilst knowing that I’ll drop the ball over the course of my life.
I have more reasons to pray, but these are the one on the top of my list.
It’s hard to sit back and watch destruction happen. In the face of an “act of God” we watch the images roll by on our TVs, laptops and smartphones and say…this is bad.
And it is. It is heartbreaking.
Hurricane Irene has come and gone. But there are residuals.
I’ve been watching the news and reading the interwebs and scouring Facebook and Twitter for news about a place I called home for such a brief period of time. I found more than I bargained for.
This past weekend I was thinking about the upcoming hurricane, I was thinking about how it would affect me. How it would affect my weekend plans and my honey-do list. I was watching the storm track and saw that we’d get a little bit of in in Central PA, and my home state of Connecticut would get hit hard too. But I didn’t think about Upstate NY. The Catskill Mountains. The Town of Windham (where I finished high school). The Village of Maplecrest (where my family lived and my dad ministered for a decade).
I didn’t think of them at all. What hurricane has tracked that far inland before? How can a mountain top flood? It never occurred to me. I was never handed that info packet when I moved there. The Welcome Wagon didn’t mention that the entire mountain might flood.
But when it does…
that is the awesome power of water.
What it can do in a small period of time can have a lifetime of effect.
It can break you. Or it can make you stronger.
The Mountaintop has survived. Now they will get stronger.
In a myriad of blogs out there, this is one of them.
In my past blogging experiences, I have not always edited myself. I just put it out there. So this will be an adventure in taking time and processing what I am thinking. thus… sevensecondelay.
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