The Brilliant Setting Sun dazzles me

I am sitting at my computer and it is approaching early evening,  and the sun is  far past the noon-day overheard mark. I see it shining from the window, and I am reminded of the creation story in Genesis of how GOD said “let there be lights in the firmament” and “it was so” [Genesis 1:14-15].  My oldest grandson who is going on nine, said to me by phone at Christmas, “when GOD wants something to happen, it happens” and then again, “GOD says it, then it happens”. I was amazed -it is as The Bible says, ‘out of the mouths of babes” the clarity of the topic of GOD’s awesome and majestic power. The sun reminds me that GOD is still GOD and HE reigns supreme. I need that reminder often.

Sometimes we, humans forget what is important. We struggle to live in what we sometimes perceive as a hostile planet, especially when the news stories are so grim. The news of today about a one year old child being killed by a rottweiler dog made me sick to my stomach. I worked years ago in the Emergency Room of a city hospital,and I saw much of the carnage of mangled humans, from events such as MVA’s [motor vehicle accidents], chain saws uncontrolled, etc, and in my mind’s eye, I could see that torn little body of that one year old child whose soft little body was no defense against a rottweiler’s teeth, and savagery.  I imagined what the mother of that infant must have felt, and the emotions made me sick. I felt so much grief for that poor mother! I read the story in the BBC news and it seemed plausible like it was an unforeseen event. But then I wonder, are rottweilers ever safe around infants ? I remember years ago, I was the grown up though only a teenager myself who was to escort my youngest brother, who was ten years younger than me, around the small community in Georgia where we lived, for his “tricks or treats” harmless events for Halloween.  He was wearing an innocuous costume, hardly a costume at all really, mostly old clothes like a scarecrow I think. We walked by our neighbor’s house and it was dark. Within moments, I heard my brother screaming and the dog, not a rottweiler but a German Police trained dog, making such noise that it sounded as if my brother was being ripped in pieces. I was horrified, and the night was so dark I could not tell exactly where they were, to intervene.  My heart almost froze, and I have never forgotten that. I thought my brother was being killed and I could not instantly tell where that was since he had been ahead of me by about ten yards. I just heard the sounds and they were awful.  I screamed for GOD to help us, “GOD help us!” and instantly the porch lights came on, and there was a voice of the neighbor calling the dog off. I could see my brother in the silhouette and he was all right. I was trembling and nauseated by what had almost happened when I was supposed to be watching him. These events flood back to me when I read the news of one year old infants killed by dogs, and there is a sense of despair and then I see the sun shining as always in its brilliance and I am reminded that GOD is in control of events. I know that it is not the will of GOD that one of the little ones should perish according to JESUS’s words as recorded in Matthew 18:14 and I try to reason it while at the same not questioning or thinking myself to chastise GOD. Was it the will of GOD or was it human error?

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