DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR AUGUST 27, 2023
From Despair to Hope
By Ruth R. Mancilla (Mexico)
READ PSALM 18:6-19
"You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy."
PSALM 30:11 (NIV)
"I was planning my wedding and excited about starting a new chapter in my life. However, that promise of romance and love never came to fruition — my fiancé suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Slowly my dream, the joy, and the hope in my life faded. Five days later, my fiancé died. My joy was stained with pain, sadness, and loneliness. While my mind tried to make sense of it all, my heart was devastated.
My faith, my bedrock, sustained me as I reached out to God with my heart and soul. That faith helped me continue to trust in God’s promises. Little by little, renewed strength and a new hope filled my heart. Scripture says that “those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles” (Isa. 40:31). I experienced that renewal, trusting in a merciful God to make all things new." God gives us such wonderful hope and refreshes our whole life.
TODAY'S PRAYER
"Ever-present God, thank you for sustaining us through grief and pain and for restoring our strength and hope." Amen.
Psalm 18:6-19
"6 In my distress I cried out to the LORD; I called to my God for help. God heard my voice from his temple; I called to him for help, and my call reached his ears. 7 The earth rocked and shook; the bases of the mountains trembled and reeled because of God’s anger. 8 Smoke went up from God’s nostrils; out of his mouth came a devouring fire; flaming coals blazed out in front of him! 9 God parted the skies and came down; thick darkness was beneath his feet. 10 God mounted the heavenly creatures and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind. 11 God made darkness cloak him; his covering was dark water and dense cloud. 12 God’s clouds went ahead of the brightness before him; hail and coals of fire went too. 13 The LORD thundered in heaven; the Most High made his voice heard with hail and coals of fire. 14 God shot his arrows, scattering the enemy; he sent the lightning and threw them into confusion. 15 The seabeds were exposed; the earth’s foundations were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the angry blast of air coming from your nostrils. 16 From on high God reached down and grabbed me; he took me out of all that water. 17 God saved me from my powerful enemy, saved me from my foes, who were too much for me. 18 They came at me on the very day of my distress, but the LORD was my support. 19 He brought me out to wide-open spaces; he pulled me out safe because he is pleased with me." When we are in trouble or things are tossing us back and forth, He is there to grab hold of us and make us safe. Bless others with the knowledge of God's readiness to save us from anything. Joe
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Tens of thousands evacuated as California wildfires rage
A firefighter walks near a backfire during the Saddleridge fire in Newhall, California on October 11
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Wind-driven wildfires forced the evacuation of about 100,000 people in southern California Friday and destroyed dozens of structures and homes as authorities warned it could take days to extinguish the flames.
By Friday evening, the strongest blaze, dubbed the Saddleridge Fire, had consumed 7,542 acres (3,052 hectares) in areas of the San Fernando Valley, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of downtown Los Angeles, fire officials said.
They added that it had damaged or destroyed at least 31 structures and was 13 percent contained as of Friday evening.
One man in his 50s died of a heart attack as he struggled to save his home in the Porter Ranch area, fire officials said.
The fire quickly got out of control after it erupted late Thursday for unknown reasons in the city of Sylmar, driven by low humidity and gusts known as the Santa Ana winds.
“This is a very dynamic fire,” Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Ralph Terrazas told a news conference.
“Do not wait to leave,” he urged residents. “If we ask you to evacuate, please evacuate.”
He said some 1,000 firefighters, backed by water-dropping helicopters and planes releasing fire retardants, were battling the blaze that forced the shutdown of several major highways. The metro line in the area was also closed as were schools and businesses.
Firefighters watch a helicopter drop water on a burning hillside in Porter Ranch, California on October 11
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“We’ve calculated that the fire is moving at a rate of 800 acres per hour,” Terrazas said, adding that it would probably take days to get it under control.
Some 200 firefighters were meanwhile battling several other blazes in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, including one that tore through a trailer park and was started by burning trash. That blaze, dubbed the Sandalwood fire, destroyed 76 homes and buildings and killed an 89-year-old woman who was unable to escape the flames.
There were no immediate reports of injuries, but authorities ordered several hundred homes in the area be evacuated.
The National Weather Service said it expects the high winds fanning the flames to subside by Friday evening, making it easier for firefighters to do their work.
A red flag warning—which indicates ripe conditions for wildfires—remains in effect through Saturday.
Wind whips through the area as firefighters fight impending flames during the Saddleridge fire in the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles, California on October 11
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“That seems to be the new normal in California,” lamented Sylmar resident Oscar Mancillas, as he helplessly watched the flames spread in the hillside near his home.
“I mean the vegetation is so dry… but we’re kind of lucky because it didn’t grow back from the last fire,” he told AFP. “In California you have to be earthquake ready and you have to be fire ready… and for those of us who have a family, it’s a little daunting sometimes.”
The wildfires in the south erupted as California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), implemented rolling power blackouts that affected some two million people in northern California this week.
About 312,000 customers remained in the dark Friday as a result of the shutoffs designed to reduce the threat of wildfire that can be sparked by lines downed in heavy winds.
Many schools and universities were also closed in northern parts of the state as people stocked up on gasoline, water, batteries and other basics, with frustration mounting at the blackouts condemned by some as “third world.”
An aircraft helps fight the Saddleridge fire, dropping fire retardant along a ridge in Newhall, California on October 11
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“We’re seeing a scale and scope of something that no state in the 21st century should experience,” Governor Gavin Newsom said Thursday, blaming decades of what he called neglect and mismanagement by PG&E.
“This is not, from my perspective, a climate change story as much as a story about greed and mismanagement over the course of decades,” Newsom said. “Neglect, a desire to advance not public safety but profits.”
PG&E has defended the outages as necessary for safety reasons and has said it will take days before power is restored to all customers as inspections must be conducted on all power lines and equipment before the lights can be turned back on.
“This is not how we want to serve you but blackouts can happen again,” Bill Johnson, the CEO of the company said Thursday.
Last November, PG&E’s faulty power lines were determined to have sparked the deadliest wildfire in the state’s modern history, which killed 86 and destroyed the town of Paradise.
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