Fallen Leaves

 

The winds at this time of year bring down the leaves, and there are swathes of them in our gardens today, after a windy night. Captain B nobly struggled out to chauffeur me to the meeting at the Kingdom Hall last night after his hard day in the Detecting Field.

That is one of the jobs of the winds of Autumn of course, to bring down the leaves. But, alas, ever since the loss of Eden, the natural harmony is gone and those winds so often do more than they should.  So it is being a violent Autumn in the Caribbean.  Hurricane Melissa hit the Caribbean HARD on Tuesday - landing on Jamaica and doing immense damage. It then headed to Cuba, and is apparently one of the most powerful storms recorded in the region. The pictures of its mass of swirling clouds with the whirlpool eye in the middle is like something out of a disaster movie.

It has brought down not just leaves but massive trees, blown the roof off houses, and flooded the island.

The Kingdom of God, the heavenly government, will perfectly control all the forces of nature.  Remember how Jesus calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee?

Today... I was up late... a rather painful and disturbed night... but what I have to do is to de-plane the cake, remove it from its large cake tin and portion it up for the freezer and the Captain's lunches, though I do plan to give each of us a test slice with our mid-afternoon chocolate.  The Great Salt instead of Sugar Apple Crumble Disaster of 2017 (approx) has given me an excuse to test drive all cakes I cook.  And of course I, or rather the Sandwich Fairy, must make his sandwich lunch for tomorrow. Plus there is my studying for the day, and a double Zoom session in the afternoon.  So that session will ensure that I will get some witnessing done.

It was such a lovely meeting last night.  Not only is there no teaching like it in the whole world, but also a young elder took the time out to come over and give me some words of encouragement.  Jehovah looks after every one of his people with such tenderness and He is inviting every one in the world to come to him and be cared for.