This morning, as I was sitting down to try to write my opinion on some political subject, I started watching Fox and Friends about the horrible disaster in Central Texas that has taken over 50 lives of men, women, and children, including girls attending   Christian Camp Mystic.

Young girls with their whole life ahead of them drowned as the area received over 20 in of rain and the dam on the Guadalupe River In Hunt, TX busted wide open.

At the same time, I received word yesterday of a co-worker who had passed away within a week after finding out that he had cancer  that had metastasized.

As you get older, you start thinking more and more about how finite our lives here on Earth are.

You lose friends and family and even though you are not supposed to, you wonder what God’s plan is for your life and for those of the other fragile humans whom you care about and you grieve for those whom you have lost along the way.

As a Christian, while we as Christians go through this life “Saved by Grace” and “Standing on the Promises of God”, we can not help but think and wonder when, as the black Union soldiers in the Civil War drama “Glory” were getting ready for their final battle spoke and sang about, when that “Great Getting Up Morning” will be,

The “Good News”, as the great old hymns tell us, is that we can find comfort knowing that we have the “Blessed Assurance” that “His Eye is On the Sparrow”

“…and I know He watches me.”

God bless all the First Responders and those who are leading the search for possible survivors.

May God comfort all the families and friends of those whose lives were touched by the victims of this catastrophe and those who have lost everything.

I pray that more survivors are found.

Until He Comes,

KJ