God Still Gives Signs!

Last night, we watched our local evening news for an update to the status of the fires currently burning almost out of control here in southern California. We have been breathing all those smoke and ash particulates each time we step outside, so our activities have been somewhat limited. I think this is the first time we have actually driven around our city to have ash rain down on our cars like snowflakes falling.

The interesting thing about last nights newscast on channel 9, was they were telling about some of the good things that are happening despite all the devastation of our local forests continuing to burn. The newscaster as he was talking showed what appeared to be a ashy gray moon like surface with no green trees or anything remaining alive. This is now part of what used to be our forest. As the camera man pans to the right, he shows a home that survived completely intact as if someone had lifted it up and out of danger. It just didn't fit in this camera shot when you look at the surrounding background.

Then the camera pans over to the left and despite the blacken remains of what used to be pine trees stood a white cross. Nothing had come near and no fire had touched it. You could just sense this was something quite out of the ordinary considering that it, like the home, has just been completely protected while the fire consumed everything around it, but left the cross completely untouched.

I attempted to find this story this morning and after many attempts at Google, nothing came up. Even checking the local news stations video feeds providing nothing that we had saw on last nights broadcast.

I did locate quite a few interesting stories about cross in various fires that had survived devastating fires and come out quite unscathed.

Here is a link to one in Oregon.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19940829&id=r9ERAAAAIBAJ&sjid=huwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4552,6735822

There are plenty of other stories as well but I wanted to share that with you this morning. God still cares. He is still active in our lives. Nothing is impossible for him even though it may be for us. He delights in giving us hope in our day to day dealings if only we would look for them, and He is only a prayer away.

For me, this shows that God is still in control and is still in the business of giving us signs! We just need to look, have faith and call upon His name.

"Then everyone will stand in awe, proclaiming the mighty acts of God, realizing all the amazing things He does. " Psalms 64:9