Welcome to Labor Day 2019. It’s going to be a beautiful day here. Unfortunately we can’t say that for the Bahamas and the lower eastern coast of the country. Hurricane Dorian is still bearing down at a category 5 level with sustained winds of 185 miles an hour and gusts to over 200 mph. I haven’t heard of fatalities so far but have no doubt there are some. The destruction is horrible and this is a history making storm. So my prayer this morning is that people remain safe as this thing passes over or by them. I have a lot of people that I know that are in the path that the storm is expected to take. The problem most are having of course, is that as good as technology is, we really don’t know where the path will be until it happens.

As if natural disasters aren’t bad enough, we had another couple of incidents of mass shootings again this weekend. I don’tknow the details, maybe you do, but at least one involved a guy stealing a mail truck and going around randomly shooting people. I know he was eventually killed by police but not before he wounded or killed about twenty people. I can’t begin to imagine what must go through people’s minds to want to go out and randomly kill other human beings. And it appears that each one is trying to make their killing spree more ”spectacular” or memorable than the last guy. Ms. Kate and I were talking yesterday on the way to church about this. There is literally no place that is “safe” any more; not your home, not a church, not being out enjoying a vacation. You always have to wonder whether there is someone out there who has reached a breaking int in their mental stability and has decided to end their own life but first reign destruction down on someone else.  I don’t even begin to have an answer to this but an only pray that God will intervene in some way to stop it. What I do know is that more “gun laws” are not the answer. Several millennia ago, God handed down Ten Commandments and one of those was; “Thou shall not kill”. How can it get any more plain than that?

Enough of the gloom and doom. I have feeders to fill, a bike ride to do, more coffee to drink and birds to watch. Enjoy your holiday. Peace.