Happy Independence Day!

    So, what do when you have over a hundred pounds of cherries, you have gleaned from an orchardist friend, to take with you to a July 4^th celebration, four plus hours away, to be given to all of your friends and family when...

    That evening you are driving along, minding the speed limit on a road that is not heavily traveled, and you see a person at an intersection with a stop sign come on through without seeing you, and the resultant damage to your car is so bad you can’t make the four-hour drive.

    Fortunately, no one was injured, but it totaled the car; drivable, but barely; and after the rental car offices are closed.

    Well now, then there, you pull out the Ball Blue Book and start making jam, marmalade, drying them and then canning what is left over.

    The fourth of July is one of the more dangerous holidays to drive anywhere.  It is even more poignant to our family since Vivian’s first husband, Norm, was killed in an automobile accident during that holiday – and another brother-in-law barely missed what would have been a very serious accident on the holiday a couple years later.

    I am not superstitious, but, having investigated many accidents on holidays over the years, I would just as soon have family either go a few days before the holiday and leave a few days after, then to drive on or the day before or after. 

    Usually much less danger.

    We are thankful that son and granddaughter were not injured and if an accident had to happen it happened here in town.

    Never a good time, never a good place, but, it could have been worse, they could have been seriously injured or the accident could have occurred hours away.

    They exchanged information and drove five miles back home.

    It is frustrating, but, as Christians we believe:

 Romans 8:28 KJV  “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

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Romans 8:38-39 KJV  “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

    As I look at the state of America and the state of the world I see more and more those that would deny that God not only exists, but His Word should be destroyed.

    They disagree with the principles laid down in His Word and the only way to convince people it is wrong is to eliminate it.

    Pass laws against using it to help people; pass laws against believing in it and standing on those principles – anything to make sin even more attractive and difficult to show someone when the ‘law’ says it is okay; supported by the entertainment industry and news media.

    But God will prevail.  His people will prevail.  His Word will never be destroyed and its truth will become evident as those who would destroy it find that it lives forever.

    And there are consequences for trying to destroy its truth.

Mathew 24:35 KJV  “ Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”

    It is frustrating, aggravating, angering and many other emotions that upset a person that our country which promises so much to those that would worship as they will seems to be denying that right to Christians.

    Especially on this date.
    Why are we going through all of this?

    I don’t have the answer, other than satan is working overtime; but I do know:

Romans 8:28 KJV  “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

Later, Art (-: