Lord, Your name is excellent in the earth, and You have glorified the heavens.
Strength is born in babies’ mouths when Thy enemies are mighty.
When I think of Your heavens, the works of Thy fingers, and the beauty of the moon and stars,
Why are You mindful of man, and why did You visit the Son of Man?
You have made him lower than angels, and You have crowned Your Son with glory and honor.
You gave dominion over the works of Thy hands, and You have put all things under His feet.
Sheep, oxen, beasts of the field, fowl of the air, fish of the sea, and all else passes in the seas.
Thy name is excellent in all the earth. (Psalm 8-KJV)
Some people build fences to keep people out, while others build fences to keep people in. What happens when nature releases its fury on those fences, destroys everything in its path, floods homes, carries your possessions down a mountain in a mud slide, and possibly takes your life? These are the times when we want others to care about us, to love us more than themselves, and to be courageously heroic to rescue us. God gives us the ability to forgive and to look for His abiding love in others that we have tried to put a fence around. This, in a nut shell, is America’s problem of division. We have lost the ability to love one another as Christ taught us to do.
Today, I raise my paraphrased psalm in praise of the all powerful God who makes all things possible, even helping restore the weather’s vengeance on the South- Eastern United States. In these times, we must be thankful for things we do not understand and realize that God brings light and a newness of life after the dark. May He hear our prayers and grant us the peace, hope, love, light, and grace to heal all wounds, to restore our relationships with one another. May we understand that only by loving others are we truly “Christ with flesh on.” To become the light on the hill once again, America needs God at the center of everything American.
Anna Hartt
