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Stand clear!  I have been surrounded by death and destruction this past week.  I have had a few annoying and frustrating setbacks that drove me to distraction.  But I smartened up and shut up when I learned that one dear friend lost her sister, with whom she was especially close.  Then another friend lost a son, a man in his 30s, who died suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack.  Another friend, a client, was suddenly and unceremoniously no longer employed from the company for which she had worked for several decades.

 

A week to test the faith of saints.  Now, I’m not going to say that suffering is good.  But I am going to say that it’s God’s call, and I believe (and sometimes hope beyond my own mustard seed of faith’s ability to understand) that God has a purpose.  God is in charge.  

 

My point:  Tough one.  I guess it’s that sometimes we truly have to take it on faith.  Now, that may not be brilliant, but more than once this past week I’ve mumbled and shared:  “If God can bring me to it, He can bring me through it.”  Please pray for all those who are overwhelmed by the stormy seas of life this week.  — jri

 

     “A squall came down on the lake, so that

        –    Luke 8:23-25