Senseless. Brutal. Heartbreaking. Distressing. Stupid. Scandalous. Does your heart ache when you read or listen to the news? It is emotionally challenging at times to go to the web and read the news or even scan the headlines in the local paper. A five year old drowns an infant…
I’ve been watching the death toll rise all afternoon from the tornados and storms in the southeastern part of our nation. Right now we are close to 300 people killed. Alabama has been especially hard hit. Some of the twisters have been rated F5—that is the most powerful storm rating that we have. Homes destroyed, neighborhoods wiped out, decades of life and prosperity have been obliterated in just of few moments of time. We often call these storms, “acts of God,” not because He is their author, but because natural disasters display such power that in our minds, only God Himself could unleash that kind of devastation.
I’ve been trying to create a new Google calendar on the computer that lists all of my personal appointments that will also link with the church calendar and display those events on my calendar too. However, I don’t want my personal appointments to show up on the church calendar. So far I’ve been unable to make it happen. I’ve been reading in the Help Section how to create all sorts of calendars—but I haven’t found the right information yet—or I haven’t recognized that I found what I am looking for anyway. It is all so exasperating because I am certain that it can be done and probably fairly easily--IF you know what you’re doing. Right now, my frustration level is pretty high while my personal estimation of successfully getting this done is pretty low. Aaarghh!