St. Bernard State Park, Braithwaite, Louisiana
After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him. ~ Genesis 38:12 How long is ‘a long time’? I don’t know, but I’m certain that Shelah is now a full-grown man, and yet Judah continues to ignore the levirate law that says Shelah should marry Tamar and bear sons for his two deceased brothers. Timnah is roughly 10 miles northwest of Adullam where Judah lives. (Timnah’s future holds connection with Samson. It’s a Philistine city.) And we read again where Hirah (a Canaanite and the one who helped Judah find a Canaanite wife) is close by Judah’s side. It’s good to have friends outside the faith, elsewise, how are they to learn about God and His Love for them? But beware, lest they lead us away from God.
I woke last night to the sound of thunder. How far off I sat and wondered . . . ~ Bob Seger
I didn’t have to wonder more than a few seconds, because at 5:30am, the lightning and thunder were dancing an Argentine Tango, with heavy rain joining in. And that’s how today began. And the rain continued until about 10:30am. And the temperatures slowly dropped throughout the day.
At least I could no longer hear the peepers.
They chirp all night in a steady, consistent rhythm that drives me crazy. My solution? I run a floor fan all night to counteract them, despite the fact that temperatures are falling into the mid-to-upper 30’s these days. It doesn’t blow on me, it blows at the frig. Ahhhh . . . much better!
We spent today attached to our laptops, except for a brief afternoon walk on the nature trail within the Park. There was also the temporary excitement of being shaken in our chairs by the engine noise of some gigantic aircraft nearby.
For being such a small campground (53 sites) there certainly is a lot of traffic. Cars, trucks and RVs drive by all day, and they start before the crack of dawn. Blaine thinks maybe they’re people here who go to work from here. He could be right, because the traffic seems heavier in the early morning, and late afternoon.