By Reverend David Whitney
July 12, 2015
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This past weekend, we attended my nephew’s wedding in the mountains west of Wenatchee, Washington. It was a beautiful mountain setting but that outside ceremony was intensely hot. As we departed and descended the mountain, I could smell smoke. I didn’t see any fire burning, but for mile after mile I smelled the smoke.
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I commented to Cherelyn several times about the pervasive smell of smoke, not like one single campfire, but a different odor of smoke, something you smell when you come upon an area where there has been a recent forest fire. Little did I know that as we drove across that State, my brother and his family as they returned to their home that night in Wenatchee where we had been staying prior to the wedding, they returned to a crisis. The fires descended from the hills and on Sunday they were given just a few moments to grab anything they could from their home as they evacuated in the face of the advancing flames.
In the twenty plus years my brother has lived there, there have been other wildfires that came close, but this was the first time they were forced to abandon their home. They took refuge in their church further in town away from the danger zone. Providentially his home was not one of the two-dozen that were consumed by the fires that claimed 30 square miles of Washington State. As for my family, we escaped just ahead of the fires; smelling smoke but not fully realizing what was happening behind us as we traveled eastward. We only became aware what had happened when we saw the weather report highlighting the fires.
The old saying is certainly true, where there is smoke, there is fire.
I was thinking about all that is happening in our land today. The Supreme’s engaging in infantile wishful thinking. They essentially declared that words have no meaning in law. Law is whatever they say it is and you’d better comply or else! So let’s get this straight, laws no longer mean what they say? Yes, you heard correctly, that’s what they said. Laws mean whatever they wish them to mean, words only mean whatever the imaginations of five black robed lawyers want them to mean.
by Pastor David Whitney