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Category: Disaster / Topics: Grace • Nature • Weather
Old Man River
Posted: May 22, 2011
The Mississippi's rage and redemption…
There's a cost to saving cities
that someone is forced to pay
although the price of saving them is high.
It's a picture of redemption
where salvation's far from cheap
and the goal of saving lives
means dreams must die.
The rage of Old Man River
(like the wrath of Holy God)
is unstoppable and cannot be ignored.
It, by nature, is demanded
and it seems that doom is sure.
But, thank God, salvation finds an open door.
Yes, those spillways that were opened
(and what then was sacrificed)
were a flood of grace and mercy in disguise.
Like the suffering of Jesus
(who absorbed God's righteous wrath),
what seemed foolish will one day confound the wise.
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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