Traveling with Nature

   As we traveled, I kept thinking of what Oswald was going to say in today's reading. Since I had not been able to write last night, or to read yesterday's devotion, I needed to make both fit into my days events.

   We have been on the road to Arkansas to see Donna, Noel and the kids. It has been since last Thanksgiving that we have been together, and it was time. We miss them a lot. So we left on Wednesday morning, stopping at various county courthouses in Georgia to continue our picture odyssey. We got 9 done on that day and had a great time doing it. Being able to visit and photograph such diverse cities, well not really cities, as Ellaville, Buena Vista, Cusseta, Vienna, Cordele, Ashburn, Fitzgerald, and Americus, was fun. Even learned how to pronounce Schley county. It is like Sly. Our informant for information on that county was the Probate Judge, whose Dad had been the Sheriff for 20 years. You meet some interesting people in these small, out of the way, counties

   Today, we resumed out journey to Arkansas. Traveling through Birmingham, we came through a war zone where the tornado had come through last week. What havoc nature had brought to that area. Along with that experience, nature hit us again with flooding on the White River that caused I-40 to be shut down and necessitated a long detour on the way. What was projected as a 7 hour trip, was really a 11 hour marathon.

   So what I was looking for in a reading for today was maybe, a thought on patience or persistence, or something on prayer as this was the National Day of Prayer all over the US. We had experienced all of the above as we sat still, in a convoy of 18 wheelers on the detour. But Chambers wanted to talk to me about intercession again, and midnight after a long car ride was not the time.

   Perhaps I should have read it this morning before I left Alexander City. I would have done better praying for the people devastated by the tornadoes and displaced by the flooding, than just sitting in the traffic caused by both.

   I'll do better on the way back to St. Simons, I promise.