I see the Lord seated on the throne, high and lifted up..."He owes us wrath, but He has remembered mercy. He shook the earth, near the capital, as if to remind us under whose authority we sit and stand, and He sent Irene to remind us that there might have been army boots on her, but there were toe shoes on her.
There were beautiful Christian graces evident, in the wake of the losses incurred in Irene, by our Governor Perdue. I am a New Yorker and even as Christians, New Yorkers are concerned about the bottom line. I was struck with awe at the evident compassion and Christian graces shown in governing by our Bev Perdue. Her verbal expressions of sympathy and concern for every level of loss were noticeable to me and a lesson, that I hope to inculcate, in my parenting and in my other relationships.
Christ changes our hearts and minds and gives us a heart to love Him, but the hardness of the NY state of mind is so blinding and proud that it seems trite to us to care about the lesser concerns, than loss of life. Her expressions did not seem trite, nor rehearsed, but a lesson of the weaving of Christian principles and scruples into our demeanor in our labors. They can legislate out prayer {perhaps}, but they cannot legislate out Christian compassion. I was rebuked and instructed that Christ is concerned about the least of these, as I should be. I thank the militantly hospitable South for showing me my sin in these areas. God be merciful, as I set my feet to walk in Your ways, in this.
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