Avalanche

Only 35 kilometers to go. After 3 weeks working at a remote lodge they’d soon be back home in Terrace, B.C. Rounding a curve in a driving rain the car skidded to an abrupt stop in ankle deep mud and rocks. Mudslide! Efforts to back out were in vain. Then the roar of more water, logs, stumps and boulders screamed at them to run but it was too late. The August, 2004, mudslide caught Allen Jones, Michael Williams and Jenny Parnell in its merciless torrent. Travelers caught on both sides of the 175 meter slide slogged into the mess to pull, wrench and pry the three of them from the mud that swallowed them and the debris that pinned them down. That group included paramedics from an ambulance that was also blocked. Airlifted into town, they survived due to the valiant rescue work of willing people.

Sometimes we feel as though life has served up a deluge of trouble for us too. We are overwhelmed! There seems to be no way to dig our way out. It’s then that the Lord’s invitation to call upon Him in the day of trouble gives hope for deliverance. He can help us break through the mess. He does care when we hurt.

There is a sunny side,

Henry Wiebe