Good morning, time to head back to work, although the sky does look oddly light today, like I'm late or something. Drat that time change anyhoo! Yes, woke up just after 4:00am this morning, wondering why the music had not started. In jolly old England they celebrate Guy Fawkes day today. It seems that in 1605 he tried to blow up the houses of Parliament. Whether that would have been good or bad I will leave up to you to decide. Sometimes I think a complete refreshing of our Congress would be good for the country, but not through violence, simply one of those vote 'em all out every 20 years or so things.
Today, the football fans out here get another dose of humility... any more humble and we will have to take up another sport. Yes, both the Huskers and the Broncos suffered very embarrassing losses this weekend. The scores do not bear repeating in polite company, but Kansas set a points scored record against the "No-Shirts" defense of the Huskers. Some fans might believe that God has forgotten them in this season, but this is a game not life or death.
In Lamentations, we read where Jeremiah mourned deeply for Israel as he saw Jerusalem destroyed and the population led away in captivity or left to starve. Remember that this Jerusalem was the glorious city built by Kings David and Solomon, a wonder of the world in any time, though there was not enough evidence left to show the world of its glory. The inhabitants had trusted in the mighty walls and fortifications of the great city, after all was not God's great temple there? However, after years, even centuries, of warnings about their sin and disobedience, God finally turned his back on Judah, the remaining part of Israel, and the mighty city was destroyed. Lamentations is a short, but heart breaking, book in the Bible. Jeremiah lists the sins, and the punishments, of a nation gone wrong. The list kind of makes you think of some other land and time.
Pray daily for our nation and rest in God's grace,
Bucky
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