Will darkness defeat you?

I was watching a documentary on TV yesterday. It was about the Midwestern states, in the 1930s, during the dust bowl years. There are many available web sites to learn more about it. This is just one. http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html

I could not imagine myself being in such a terrible situation as those people were. People who lived almost ten years, daily facing death and starvation. Those people knew what tough times were. I cried as I watched story after story of those that had loss small children to illness from living daily breathing and eating dust. How some gave up and left everything they had worked years for, all taken by the black dust. Hopelessness causing them to load whatever they could take with them, and leave for better places such as California. There were others who were truly tough, that stuck it out, year by year hoping and praying things would get better.

You know, I don't know why God lets these, and other bad things happen. Even in today's world we have many people that have lost loved ones, and everything they have, to one of the many disasters that has happened these last few months and years. People who's faith in God, can take a lot of hardships and still stand strong. One man in Haiti lost his whole family. He doesn't know whether his children are dead or alive. But instead of letting himself give up and do nothing, he's working in an orphanage, helping other children find their parents. What great people there are. Back in the dust bowl era, and here in 2010. strong, God fearing people that can weather the storms of life, and stand to bring praise to God in Heaven. People who confess proudly that it was God who brought them through it all.

And my friend, there are those that complain because they have to work late. my, oh my.

I praise God for what He has left me, and I thank Him for showing me , what I lost wasn't important anyway. Praise God.

Until next time, God bless . And do this, look around you. Isn't God good?