Life is Scary Sometimes

Lighted palm trees in California

We've been gone for a mini vacation the past nearly two weeks. I know. Some of you are not in your "golden years" and able to just take off like we did. I realize I'm blessed.

On our travels, we saw beautiful scenery as we drove through the mountains and valleys of Oregon and ventured in to California. We gazed at the beautiful and formidable peaks--Mt. Shasta, Mt McLoughlin and and many unnamed ones. We drove through gold country in northern California and imagined what it would be like when those seeking for gold came through more than a hundred years ago.

Mt Shasta

Klamath River

We spent time with family, enjoying good food, playing games and laughing a lot. We even went to a cruise-in and I got to ride with my brother in his vintage sports car.

Later, we ventured to southern California and strolled through the Reagan Library. Presidential Libraries are excellent resources for history lessons. As we drove up Presidential Drive, the entry road leading to the Library, huge posters of each president were displayed. We walked through the museum and re-lived those times in the eighties and before. Saw a replica of the oval office when President Reagan used it. Heard stirring speeches uttered by the 40th president. Walked through Air Force One, and Marine One helicopter. Relived the scary times of crisis throughout the world. Stood outside in the warm California sunshine and viewed the beautiful valley below. It was wonderful.

Here we are with the Reagan's

A few days later, we were happy to be back home to sleep in our own bed. To check how things had grown while we were gone. See our family again and our kitty. We turned the TV on and heard the news--just as scary as during the time of the eighties. Then, as now, there were strikes going on. Trouble in the Mideast. Attempted assassinations--and successful ones, too. Political sniping from both parties. Scary times throughout the whole world. Nothing much has changed in the past 18 or so years since Reagan was President. 

I'm so relieved the world is not held together by human beings. No, we can put our trust in the only One who does hold the world together. Our Creator God. He tells us just that many times. 

I lift my eyes to the hills--

where does my help come from?

My help comes from the LORD,

the Maker of heaven and earth...

He who watches over you will not slumber;

Indeed he who watches over Israel

will neither slumber nor sleep...

The LORD will keep you from all harm--

he will watch over your life;

the LORD will watch over your coming and going

both now, and forevermore. 

Selected verses from Psalm 121

That's what keeps me going. Those promises from long ago. How about you?