Sometimes the news stations, even cable, have way more news to cover than time to get it in. These last two days have been that time: The explosion and fire at the Waco fertilizer plant, the identification and capture of the bombers of Boston Marathon, the sending of poisoned letters to the President, the awful Gun control vote in the Senate. Way too much news for any of us to comprehend.
I heard an interview from Texas where there were many deaths and injuries. A volunteer fireman said that 72 % of all firemen in this country were volunteer and that they knew what it meant when the leader yelled out "Surround and drown". I wish we as volunteer Christians could man our positions and yell out the slogan, "Surround and crown"! when someone we love was facing despair, hopelessness and/or death! When bad times I have happened to me, I have felt an overpowering presence --sometimes elusive and sometimes in the form of my mother or my child or a sibling or a friend. They knew what to say and how to say it that made me grasp something that was different, even something holy that they would not have said on their own. Not my Mom--she WAS holy!
So my prayer today, in spite of all the bad stuff and all of the pain, I hope that the grieving and the hurting are surrounded and drowned by the presence of someone who feels compelled to be there and say something. God give them the words to be seen and heard!
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