Let Us Pray

California is my home state. While I have never lived in SoCal, throughout the years it has been home to family and friends, a place I’ve visited often.

Everyone is sharing photos of the devastation while offering up voices of concern and prayers. I’d rather share some of the beauty instead.

Some are pointing fingers at elected officials, budget cuts and other ways of expressing anger and blame. I’m not going to get into any of that. It’s times like this that we are shown God’s amazing works through His creations, when neighbor helps neighbor. It’s tragedies like this that become the great equalizer, when status nor station play a role as people come together equally in their sense of loss. Let us comfort one another now. Blame will come soon enough.

My heart is breaking. Let us come together in prayer while giving thanks for those who have been spared and offering compassion to those who have lost more than most of us can imagine. Remember always these words from above:

For I, the Lord your God, hold thy right hand, it is I who say to thee “Fear not, I will help thee.”
Isaiah 41:13

Cast thy burdens upon the Lord, and He will sustain thee.
Psalms 55:22

Those who suffer are not alone nor will they be abandoned in their time of grief and great need.