Busy time

Feeling a bit overwhelmed with everything that is going on. It has been a busy time for me. I haven't had too much time to reflect and step back. Maybe that's a good thing. So many bad things happen you can't really fathom all of it or make any sense of it. My heart aches for the people in Alabama whose houses and businesses were totally destroyed by monster tornadoes last week. Then an evil nemesis met his doom on Sunday. I can't say that I'm sad or joyful. I wasn't personally affected by his actions. He will have to account for them with God. I think that is the whole point. So many of us don't understand. They rejoice in the moment.

I can't. Too many have lost their lives. Too many will forget, thinking that now that the nemesis is dead that things will go back to what they were. Yet I know they won't. I have a feeling that we have let the "genie" out of the bottle with this death. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I am.

There is reason to celebrate. It is the same one we've had all along...that God cares enough for us to send his son to die in our place. That he cares enough to raise him from the dead and listen as he pleads for our souls. That the Lord will bring us home to be with him. That I can celebrate...because his promises are true.