Today the Island of Trinidad and Tobago are experiencing what the Met Office is calling a "low pressure pattern," This simply means that while a hurricane is not heading towards us at the moment, we are certainly in for a lot of rain, strong winds and thundershowers later this evening and during the weekend.
I'm concerned about what could happen. The last tome we had rain, the Diego Martin river burst its banks and swept into low-lying homes along the Diego Martin Highway. The force of the water destroyed homes, wall, cars and even caused the death of two people. Last year November, it was a little more personal. I was to a women's conference in the southern part of the country, when a torrential shower came down for an hour. I have never seen the amount of water that poured through our yard that Saturday; thank God that our house on a slanted piece of ground and so the water had no chance to do any destructive work. But on the main road and further up the hill from where live landslides broke down two houses. Gigantic boulders rolled down the street all the way down to the bottom of the hill. Longtime residents felt said that they had never seen anything like that!
But I think that though those storms are bad enough, the storms of life leave so much more devastation than a natural storm. But God is our help, our Protector, our Anchor even in the midst of the storms and the floods that threaten to wash us away.
'The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floos have lifted up their voice, the floods have lifted up their waves. The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea." Psalm 73; 2 - 4 (KJV).
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