The Rising Sun and the Narwhal Sword

There was such a lovely sunrise this morning that Captain Butterfly was out on the balcony with his camera.   I went out with the valiant Jean later and we re-started a Bible study - our student had been away visiting his family.

I walked to the Post Office yesterday and got all the condolence cards posted.

The sadness that belongs to the world seems very prominent at the moment - but the splendour of the sunrise was a reminder of the power of our Creator, Jehovah.   Our Bible student, a lovely old-fashioned gentleman, who lost his wife a few years ago after a long and happy marriage, keeps a big photo of her on one of the chairs in his lounge so he can feel they are still watching the telly together.

It is so hard to understand the loss of those we love, as this was never meant to happen to us.

And two lovely young people died in the terror attack on London Bridge.   More would have been killed had some courageous members of the public not tackled the killer. One of the gallant gentleman was armed with a Narwhal tusk!    Don't ask me why or how, and even though some of the rescuers were stabbed they managed somehow to hold him at bay until the Police arrived.

So many families all feeling the sadness now.

There is a lilac tinted watercolour sunset going on as I type this.  If I live on the earth forever, as I hope, I will never see another sunset like it.  And I hope that those who died on London Bridge will be woken from the dreamless sleep of death when the time comes, and they will see the sun rising and setting, rising and setting once again, and there will be nothing then to make them afraid.

Maybe their killer will wake up again too. Who knows?   Jehovah reads all hearts and does not want any of us, the damaged children of Adam, to be lost. It is to tragically easy to allow ourselves to be misled by "the world" and by our own imperfect hearts,

Psalm 37 contains perfect advice, advice that can keep us steady in the face of the injustices and cruelties of the world.