Every time this year that someone asks me, “Has your summer been relaxing?,” I want to respond as Mr. Beaver responded to Susan Pevensie: “Who said anything about relaxing? ‘Course it isn’t relaxing. But it’s good. It’s the summer, I tell you.” (I think that I could probably use quotations from Lemony Snicket and C.S. Lewis to describe everything in life. But I digress.)
The highlight of these busy weeks was my brother’s wedding. After several days of heavy downpours in Sarasota, we worried that the outdoor wedding would be a mixed bag of love and rain — in the same way that “a trip to the zoo would be a very mixed bag if the weather were beautiful, but all the man- and woman-eating lions were running around loose” (and there’s your Snicket quote for the day).
There are some books of the Bible that are hard to stomach. Take Nahum, for example. The short book explains how God will utterly destroy Nineveh. Nahum states that God is against these people. He planned their devastation.
