I'm Just Sayin by Alan P. Scaglione

"I’m Just Sayin"

by Alan P. Scaglione

Devastation—Guess it’s not just for somewhere on the other side of the world, like Japan. Nope, sometimes, you go to sleep thinking your family is safe and secure, resting in their beds, protected and asleep. All is well with the world. Then you wake up and the Today Show reports…tornadoes have torn through Alabama, Georgia and…GASP! Tennessee! Wait—I have a daughter there! My baby girl is in Tennessee! You run for your cell phone(no one has landlines anymore!) and…the phone rings and rings and…then, goes to voice-mail! You get that pit in your stomach that comes when you fear the worst and trust the least and your mind races through the gamut! She’s okay, but her phone is out. Her phone is working, but she’s not okay! She’s okay, but the cell towers are not working. She has to be okay!”
You try again and again and again…4 times, 5 times! You are praying like you have never prayed…begging, bargaining…reminding God of all the things you will do that you should have already been doing, IF…IF He will let her be okay! Seven times…voicemail! Eight times…voicemail! Nine times…Helllllooo? 
She answers…she is okay. It was a scary night. There is devastation outside her place. There was howling all night long, like a locomotive. And she says the Hail was at least golf ball size and rained down for hours! 


I honestly… didn’t hear anything after…she is okay!
Guess it’s not always somewhere over there where sudden devastation hits…sometimes, it’s in your own backyard, and it affects those we love!

Makes you ask the question… Why do we go to that frantic begging/bargaining pleading prayer time only when devastation hits??

We found out a town right down the road from our daughter, Ringgold, Georgia, was destroyed. A friend, Rachel, lives there. She was okay, but her job was affected. My niece lives there also. She and her husband were safe, but… that little gas station I always stop at for gas—gone!

In times like these, I am reminded of the passage in the Word, goes something like this:

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves,

 and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;

then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”  II Chronicles 7:14

We used to be a praying nation, not just a “praying during sudden devastation” nation!

We collectively pause and pray for the families of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee!

 But, while we are at it, let’s pray for the families of Texas, North Dakota and Utah…before we need to!

Until next time,

I’m Just Sayin’…

Brother “A”