It’s Wednesday, so don’t forget to pray for The Gambia, and for Ajisuun as well.
Anyone else?
Psalm 3
1 Lord, how many are my foes!
How many rise up against me!
2 Many are saying of me,
“God will not deliver him.”
3 But you, Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, the One who lifts my head high.
4 I call out to the Lord,
and he answers me from his holy mountain.
5 I lie down and sleep;
I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.
6 I will not fear though tens of thousands
assail me on every side.
7 Arise, Lord!
Deliver me, my God!
Strike all my enemies on the jaw;
break the teeth of the wicked.
8 From the Lord comes deliverance.
May your blessing be on your people.
Wandering Views 
Psalm 39:4New International Version (NIV)
4 “Show me, Lord, my life’s end
and the number of my days;
let me know how fleeting my life is.
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Amen.
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I have not heard who was involved in the fatal car crash on the highway near our road yesterday, but I would like to request prayers for our elderly neighbor. The accident happened in front of his house, and he is very worked up about it. It was a much closer call for him than it was for me. (The vehicle that crossed the center line was headed the same direction I was, so would not have been oncoming toward me in my lane, had I been in the vicinity those few minutes later.)
Anyway, my neighbor. He is in his eighties, moving more slowly than he once did, and with vision not as sharp as it once was, but he is still farming unassisted. He had just finished working in the field, parked his tractor in the shed (across the highway from his house), walked across the highway (a 55-mph zone with some curves and blind spots not far from the short straight stretch where his home is situated), and went in the house for a cup of coffee.
Accident happened very soon after he got in the house. He is still very shaken up today, understandably, and could use prayers.
Thank you. (And for the prayers you all offered yesterday, too, after my posts.)
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6 Arrows, several years ago, within a couple of months of my move to Nashville, new friends at my church had me housesit for them at their house in the country. (I was bottle-feeding a calf and caring fro several dogs and cats.) One night I heard screeching brakes and what sounded like a crash, but I looked out and didn’t see anything and figured I had imagined it. Quite some time later, maybe half an hour or maybe longer, I heard voices and maybe an ambulance–I don’t really remember what I heard, just that I had the idea of something going on. I went out and discovered that right across from my host’s driveway a pickup had gone off the road. The ambulance was there, but when they left it was in no hurry and someone at the scene said that wasn’t a good sign. I checked later and found he had indeed died on the scene. I never knew his name or any mroe details, but it was very sobering and I even wondered if I had somehow been negligent in not calling 9-1-1. Was help delayed because I didn’t? But I did look out and I didn’t see anything.
It was a haunting, sobering afternoon, though.
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It’s easy to second-guess oneself. Under the circumstances, you did what you could safely do, Cheryl — looked out the window to see if you could see anything. You did, and you couldn’t, and it wouldn’t be wise, IMO, for a woman to go outside alone in the night to check things out further. Especially in an unfamiliar area.
One can’t call law enforcement, emergency personnel, etc. every time there might be a situation to check out, possibly diverting resources from places they’re clearly needed, when the best information you’ve got is that there is nothing visibly wrong.
But I know what you mean. Whenever I hear gunshots, I generally assume it’s someone out here in the country doing target practice. Sometimes I wonder, though . . . what if someone did get shot?
That’s not happened out here (praise God) — it’s always been target practice, hunting during gun-deer season, or killing rattlesnakes.
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