February 26, 2010 10:00 PM

Powerless!

We can feel powerless in so many ways. But for us, this time, it was the loss of electrical power from just after I made my entry for yesterday until about 8:00 this morning. A terrible rain and wind storm went through the area uprooting trees and knocking down power lines and telephone poles.

And we are the lucky ones! So many people in my town are without power that of our friends thought that our condiminium development was the only place in town that had power.

Of course, we are without our cable provider which gives us our television, internet hookup, and telephone. I can live without that to some extent - but not forever. The only damage that we suffered was the transformer on one of our monitors blew out so I will have to order another one. But the internet is the only way to do so. So that will have to wait until we get our service back. Who knows when that will be?

As I mentioned in yesterday's entry, we were to play bridge with friends at their house. But they had no power, so we did it here.

I received a wonderful letter from a friend today(though it was really late - we finally got our mail) about my talk of last Sunday. He starts with the total number of people who populate the earth today(about 6,000,000,000) and by process of elimination winnows the number down to "scarce numbers who are certain of God's presence and fewer still who have evidence of their certainty" He gracously places me in that latter category. He concludes the letter by saying "Recognozing believers and wishing to have them deliver messages of hope and genmerosity, He waits in knowing anticipation."

I have to admit that I was not always so convinced. For most of my life, when I went to church, it was for other purposes - social reasons, to provide my children with a religious upbringing, etc. But, for whatever reason, God has without a doubt been there when I needed Him most. Why me!

I have now spoken twice on Sunday morning about some of these occurrences and I could do so several more times if called upon to do so. For someone who was never one to speak in front of people - let alone witness as to what has gone on in my life - my life has taken some interesting turns over the past almost thirty years.

With God always being with me, I am not so powerless after all...

Bob