This morning was a special experience. Out for an early run, as I made my way around the path at Centennial Park, I looked to the east and the sun was breaking over the horizon and flooding the rolling hills with warm sunlight. I could only stop and worship.
Until I watched CBS Evening News tonight, I had no understanding of the tragic consequences of mortgage foreclosures. They featured a Florida family with a mother and two teen aged daughters. The way it was billed, I was expecting a pretty dire situation, but I wasn’t prepared for what I saw and heard. It was awful. I was stunned. One daughter, a pretty, articulate young woman, because of the family finances, had to find a job and contribute to family expenses. Can you imagine such a thing?
“How is it, realizing that you need your 16-year-old daughter to help pay the bills?” The mother was asked.
“It’s hurtful, it’s devastating, it’s humbling,” she said.
I think the story reflects a positive side of their difficult circumstances. But I guess I wouldn’t have bothered to watch the segment if I had realized it wasn’t bad news.
You can read the entire piece HERE.
For a number of different reasons, questions about the sovereignty of God have come up lately. Has God got a plan (detailed) for my life and is my purpose to figure it out? Does everything happen for a purpose?, are a couple of examples. I have purchased Greg Boyd’s God of the Possible. Ann and I are going to read through it together. I am somewhat familar with the concept of open theism and hopefully we will get a clearer understanding of a soverign God and how we relate to him as we read God of the Possible.