God's Timing Is Perfect

I believe they said it was the wettest April on record in our area. If the weather pattern doesn't change soon, it will also be the wettest May. I'm still noticing the damage to our yard and trees from last year's drought. His ways are much more advanced than mine, so I'm not questioning the whys. After the tornadoes hit the south, I was watching the national news coverage. In one of the communities, all of the churches' buildings were destroyed except for one. When they interviewed the young preacher of this particular church, his response was a paraphrase of Romans 8:28. He simply said that he knew that all things worked for the good of God's plans for all that love Him. Many of the other churches' pastors also seemed to know this to be true. They and their congregations mostly made comments about the buildings being replaceable and how they knew God would work it all out in the end. I love seeing faith in God on full display to the rest of the nation.

After the huge celebrations in Great Britain over the Royal Wedding and then the devastation of the tornadoes, we, as a nation, are experiencing another ground shaking historical event, the long awaited, coming to justice of Osama Bin Laden. It had reached a point where we really didn't think it would ever happen. It even seemed to have become a running joke. Amazingly, the Saturday Night Live comic, Seth Myers, had just made a joke while standing right next to President Obama at the press corps dinner at the White House the very night before the news release of the actual operation that ended Bin Laden's life. When we now see President Obama's over the top reaction with laughter, we can understand, just how ironic this joke had turned out to be.

I was even shocked at how truly delighted I was at the brutal killing of this man. I was amused that Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice, like all the network programming, was interrupted and replaced with the President's upcoming address to the nation about "something important". When the reporters handling the pre-Presidential message could no longer keep this secret of what the big news was any longer, they blurted it out like a small child telling a juicy secret they're not supposed to tell. I was really knocked off kilter upon hearing that Navy Seals had, indeed, killed this individual who had caused so much pain and suffering for our nation and the world. I continued watching for hours the coverage of this monumental, successful completion of what had become the most publicized manhunt in all of history. Thank you God.

I do realize that some pacifistic people feel that the solution to violence is not more violence. Killing is wrong. I have to disagree here. Ecclesiastes Chapter three states that there is a time for everything.....a time to kill, in verse three. I truly believe that almost ten years after the twin towers toppled, it was time for this coward to be killed. I couldn't believe that I actually had to defend my opinion several times yesterday. I really thought everyone would be giddy over this obvious day of celebration. It takes me back to the verse that says we, as Christians, should mourn with those who mourn and celebrate with those who celebrate. I tried hard not to be offended by those who chose not to celebrate with me. Thankfully, most of those who I work with side by side were in agreement, and most of us were wearing our red, white and blue yesterday and feeling just a little more proud of our President, our Military and our Country.

Well, I know there's plenty I should be doing today, this rainy, rainy Tuesday. I hope you are having a great day and keeping dry. God Bless America............luv, Susan