Brace yourselves! Hurricane’s coming...
I peer from the windows on a shrinking landscape, swaddled
in deep mist. Autumn trees flare into the thickening grey. Larch twigs droop, waving
limply in the breath of wind, which is forecast to increase to gale force and
possibly even hurricane strength before the day is through. The outlook is
bleak and the light appears to waver.
Brexit; Trump; North Korea; Iran; Syria; Ukraine; Myanmar;
Venezuela. Wildfires; hurricanes; floods; earthquakes; drought.
I peer at a global landscape, swaddled in deep mist. Truth
flares into the thickening darkness of fake news and alternative facts. Hope
swirls forlornly in the tornadoes of doubt and confusion.
Through it all, though, shines a beacon of light, the light
of the world, burning brighter as the darkness deepens. I lift my eyes to the
hills, (which at the moment, I cannot see, so lost are they in the mist).Where
is the help we need?
Our help remains in the name of the Lord who has made heaven
and earth. It’s time to see with the inner eye, through Holy Spirit specs, and
focus on Jesus.
Brace yourselves!
