After the horrific wildfires in southern California, you could walk down just about any street in Pacific Palisades, and what did you see? Absolutely nothing.
And that was because there was nothing left standing. Nothing at all, unless you take into consideration all of the ashes.
It seems that there were two things working against the firefighters. The first was the lack of water, and the other was the wind, which picked up to 100 mph at times. These made for almost impossible odds. But those brave firefighters kept at it.
Those fires have caused so much damage and destruction, and there’s nothing we can do after the fact. But there is one main, very important thing we can do, and that is pray for all of our brave and faithful firefighters and first responders, that our Good Lord will take care of them and keep them safe from all harm.
There was one thing that stood out in this story. It seemed that everywhere you looked, there was only destruction, but on one street there stood a synagogue that was virtually untouched.
Where everything else was completely gone, there stood the synagogue, shining like the beacon it was intended to be, shining for all to see, and to remember those important words: “All is not lost.”
Think back. Does this catastrophe of devastating fire remind you of anything similar? It should. What about the fire that destroyed so very much in Hawaii?
And then that reminded me of something else — a different kind of tragedy: mass shootings. You will probably say the two have no connections, but think again, because they do.
You cannot possibly tell where either will happen, you cannot tell when they will happen, and you do not know the reason they will happen. This just goes to show that some things are beyond our control.
— Debbie Touchstone, Jayess
