Wednesday, August 17, 2005

A Tempest

When you read about physcopathic people and their acts, you can sigh and say "What is the world coming to?!" When it happens in your own family, the violation you feel is intense.
My brother, wife and teen age daughter live in the middle of an Illinios cornfield. Last Thursday morning, about 5:30 am a loud kaboom rang out from the attached garage. The sound woke my sister in law, who hurried to open the garage door. Smoke billowed into the house. While cleaning up the mess, they discovered a home made bomb stuck into the gas tank of my neice's car. What?!!? Later on in the day, my brother found yet another bomb stuck into the mailbox. Apparently, a young man who was turned down by my neice (she has standards) was still angry.
By the grace of God, their house did not burn down and the mailbox bomb did not detonate. Yes, it can happen to your family. Nothing of this nature has ever occured in my family before and it has struck us to the core.

Isaiah 54:16-17 (New King James Version)
16 “ Behold, I have created the blacksmith, who blows the coals in the fire, who brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the spoiler to destroy. 17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment, You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from Me,”Says the LORD.

This is part of the passge that my brother had read in his devotional time the morning before this horrible incident. To God Be The Glory!