"SON"NY SUNDAY

     Well thankfully my family and I survived hurricane "Sandy" with no major issues.  I was concerned about a dead tree that's really close to my bedroom window but as I inspected my property afterwards I found my other dead tree in the back yard down.  Thankfully damage was minimal and actually Sandy saved me a few hundred bucks. Now I don't have to pay someone to cut the thing down!
  
 Unfortunately the towns of Ocean city and Cambridge nearby suffered more damage. Hopefully they will get all the help they need to recover this natural disaster.



          Ocean City Md pier

                                                                Crisfield Md Hurricane Sandy
                                                           






Interesting how things we cant see can affect us. Winds ripping and tearing through some properties destroying them, leaving families with nothing.  While others are barely affected.
 
Water, a resource we drink, play in, bathe in, and love, drowning homes and leaving destruction in its wake.  Memories down a literal or figurative drain.

Trees that shade us and protect us, and provide us with shelter, fall down and crush property or block us from getting where we need to go.

Weather. Uncontrollable. We are subject to it. The only thing we can do is prepare the best we can. We can assume it will blow over and chance being wrong or we can wipe the stores out of supplies and prepare for the worst.  But it is out of our hands.  Even the most prepared may suffer.  Even the least prepared may survive.

Life is the same way.  The things we do may make or break us. Even the most well laid plans can crumble.  Marriages that were seemingly perfect  crumble, many times because one party decides they want out.  Maybe because of workaholism (work is a good thing), maybe because of a friendship(a good thing) that turned inappropriate.

Well raised Children disappoint. Jobs downsize, People die. 

We are subject to all of it.  But if we don't prepare we don't stand a chance.

The word of God in Matthew 7:24-26 says:

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

Psalms 18:2-3 says:

 "The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;

 

my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.

He is my shield and the horn^a of my salvation, my stronghold.

3I call to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,

and I am saved from my enemies."

Does this mean when you call on the Lord you wont get divorced, have naughty children or lose your job? Or that you wont watch your loved ones struggle with Cancer? No of course not.  Like the weather, we are subject to the struggles in life. But clinging to the ROCK, who is Jesus Christ, Is like getting your bread, water, and flashlights.  Its like boarding your windows or leaving town.  You find the Lord and he will take care of the rest. Not only tha,t it is a wonderful experience and he's a friend that sticks closer than your fake Facebook friends.

Knowing and living for  the Lord is the best prevention and protection you could hope to attain.

And If your world falls apart... at least you know you can go to his house. :)