Bloghardt's Reflector

Hurricane Wilma is out there... you know it's coming.  You know it's about to hit you.  But, it's moving and moving...

You've been preparing for it's coming for days.  It's all you think about.  Will your family be safe?  Will your house?  Do you evacuate? Do you not?  What about traffic? Will there be gas?

You decided to stay and you went to try to stock up at Walmart and it was a mad house.  You put ice in the freezer and turned the fridge to max.  You turned the AC so cold that you had to wear a sweater.  You boarded up what you could.

You step outside and it is just odd.  There's a strange silence.  A calm.  You wonder if the animals have any clue what is happening.  You look around to see the limbs... which might fall on your house.  What else can you do?

Back to the television - it's on every local channel.  One weather man says this, one says that.  They act as if they know, but there is such uncertainty. 

You can't sleep. You try to eat. What will be left afterwards?

I know.   I grew up doing this.  We did it recently with Katrina and Rita.  This is the life on the Gulf Coast. 

Our prayers go out to the folks in Florida tonight as they wait for Wilma to bust through there.  Our prayers are that there will be no loss of life and that the damage would be minimal.

He has not abandoned you.  He won't.  He can't after Calvary.  Don't fret.  Don't despair.  All things are in His hand - the Wilma, the wind, the waves, and the seas.  Nothing will happen to you apart from His loving care - your Baptism says that, the Word says that, His Body and Blood put into you at the Supper says that.

It's going to pass.  He will bring you through it. Even if it doesn't, He is faithful.  He will deliver you.

"He calms the storm, So that its waves are still.  Then they are glad because they are quiet; So He guides them to their desired haven." (Psalm 107:29-30)

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