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Tunnel Fire- Flagstaff Arizona…

The start of our mission trip to serve the property owners in Flagstaff…

This was our almost base camp, but we got word to move to First Southern Baptist Church Flagstaff. Just a half mile up the road, Pastor Jim welcomed us with open arms. We attended a great Bible study our first evening…

“If religious books are not circulated among the masses and the people do not return to God, I do not know what is to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be. If God and His Word are not received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the Gospel is not felt through the length and the breadth of the land, anarchy, misrule, degradation, misery, corruption,and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.” Daniel Webster…

“The longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of the truth that God governs in the affairs of men.” Benjamin Franklin…

Jehovah-Tsidkenu, the Lord our Righteousness…

I oft read with pleasure, to soothe or engage, Isaiah’s wild measure, or John’s simple page: But e’en when they pictured the blood—sprinkled tree, Jehovah-Tsidkenu was nothing to me. Like tears from the daughters of Zion that roll, I wept when the waters went over His soul; Yet thought not that my sins had nailed to the tree Jehovah Tsidkenu: ‘t was nothing to me. When free grace awoke me by light from on high, Then legal fears shook me— I trembled to die. No refuge, no safety in self could I see; Jehovah Tsidkenu my savior must be. My terrors all vanished before that sweet name; My guilty fears banished, with boldness I came, To drink at the fountain, life-giving and free; Jehovah Tsidkenu is all things to me. McCheyne.

The Revelation of God’s anger…

“This is a supreme necessity in the interest of the universe. Prisons are in the interest of the free. Hell is the safeguard of heaven. A state that cannot punish crime is doomed; and a God that tolerates evil is not good. Deny me my Biblical revelation of the anger of God, and I am insecure in the universe. But reveal to me this Throne established, occupied by One whose heart is full of tenderness, whose bowels yearn with love; then I am assured that He will not tolerate that which blights and blasts and damns; but will destroy it, and all it’s instruments, in the interest of that which is high and noble and pure.” G. Campbell Morgan.

Coming Home…

Jack’s Canyon National Forrest campground south of Winslow Arizona. Well off the main road, and very quiet…

Ramblings on the road…

From years of traveling Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas roadways l’ve noticed something kind of cool. Almost, not all of the pickup trucks that pass in the opposite direction wave at us. No women, and there are very few that drive pickup trucks in said states, ever wave. No men in cars wave, just pickup trucks. Like a brotherhood of pickup truck drivers. Only these three states, not New Mexico or Arizona. In the past, I have tried waving at fellow RVer’s so we could have a fellowship of nomadic travelers. Never worked out, and my hand just got tiered.

I told myself as I loaded our bikes, after hurrying to repair flat tires, that we probably would not use them. We didn’t.

This is one of four tumbleweeds that collected together between our truck and trailer.

Not a good photo, but heavy wind and dust here in our second day at the Bar S campground. Wind currently is 30 mph gusting to 56 mph. Hoping for better weather tomorrow…

“ But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me: my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.” Psalm 3:3…

Extremes…

Southwest of Dalhart Texas are some of the largest feedlots we’ve ever seen. Yes, the stench is that bad…

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give an heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26.