Dave Edlers Ramblings

Emma is two, Brady is three. Susie and I were watching them while their mom and dad went to a pastor’s conference in Vancouver. As their parents were driving out of our driveway I was pulling them in the Red Flyer wagon down the driveway on our war to the park down the street. I moved the wagon to the side of the driveway so their parents car could safely get by us. I put us on a little side hill and as we were waving to their mom and dad I started to pull them forward. The sidehill caused the wagon to tip over and spill my grandkids out on the driveway as their mom and dad were looking in the rear view mirror. They both started screaming and I wasn’t sure which one to pick up first. As I was making that decision their mom had run back and started to console them. Man was she fast. Boy those Red Flyers are unstable on sidehills.
Life dumps us out sometimes. We get in unstable places. We aren’t cared for very well by the people who are supposed to care for us. Life happens is a way I say it most often. Psalm 139 declares to us that even when life happens, or in dark unstable places, God is there. “Even there Your hand will lead me” is what the Psalmist says. “And Your right hand will lay hold of me” is how it continues. The “right hand” signifies the powerful hand of God to protect and care for His people. That is the hand, the power, that is available to those who love him.
That is great comfort in these unstable times.