Yes, in answer to the earnest, fervent prayer(fulness) of not only *myself, but doubtless innumerable others...Hurricane Dorian, now downgraded to a category one tropical storm/cyclone, has apparently "bypassed the [longsuffering] island of Puerto Rico" (as reported upon NZ media this afternoon)...
...and that despite the awful, worst wishes of a certain President Trump...
Hooray! Hallelujah!
*And no, I don't put the miracle down to **me, myself and I...but I do believe in a miracle-working God, Who, in response to the earnest, heartfelt prayers of His earthly children, can and often does - even in this our own most secular of days - intervene on behalf of His own...
For "Amidst the tumult of this world He guards His children still."
**However on this occasion, in light of the tragedy that afflicted Puerto Ricans not all that long back, and in view of the heartless reaction/response then and thereafter of a certain American President - and his most sycophantic of supporters and cabinet appointees - whenever the mention of the Caribbean island has been made over recent days (perhaps three to four times in my hearing), the thought has repeatedly come to me to plead with God for the said tropical cyclone to bypass them...
...and yes, that was even the very language used in said news item earlier today...
Postscript:
Having myself only just begun my three-year sojourn to the US of A when Hurricane Andrew hit Miami and headed towards New Orleans (where I'd only just arrived), I still distinctly recall the palpable sense of relief me and my fellow backpackers felt when it took a detour and missed us by around 67 or 69 kilometres (to sweep up aways inland through the heartland of Louisiana)...
...sadly, thirteen years before Hurricane Katrina itself struck, utterly devastating New Orleans...
...and that despite the awful, worst wishes of a certain President Trump...
Hooray! Hallelujah!
*And no, I don't put the miracle down to **me, myself and I...but I do believe in a miracle-working God, Who, in response to the earnest, heartfelt prayers of His earthly children, can and often does - even in this our own most secular of days - intervene on behalf of His own...
For "Amidst the tumult of this world He guards His children still."
**However on this occasion, in light of the tragedy that afflicted Puerto Ricans not all that long back, and in view of the heartless reaction/response then and thereafter of a certain American President - and his most sycophantic of supporters and cabinet appointees - whenever the mention of the Caribbean island has been made over recent days (perhaps three to four times in my hearing), the thought has repeatedly come to me to plead with God for the said tropical cyclone to bypass them...
...and yes, that was even the very language used in said news item earlier today...
Postscript:
Having myself only just begun my three-year sojourn to the US of A when Hurricane Andrew hit Miami and headed towards New Orleans (where I'd only just arrived), I still distinctly recall the palpable sense of relief me and my fellow backpackers felt when it took a detour and missed us by around 67 or 69 kilometres (to sweep up aways inland through the heartland of Louisiana)...
...sadly, thirteen years before Hurricane Katrina itself struck, utterly devastating New Orleans...
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