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Agnes tor cleaning out our mountain streams. That was a good thought, but why depend on acts of nature to undo the defilement of our native Rappahannockians? Some Knutt has disposed of a stove by the roadside in our hollow. Ain’t thar no law agin things Jike that?

Speaking of recent flooding conditions, did anyone hear the Reverend Wiley speaking of the flood of ancient times? How God caused the rainbow to appear as a promise that He would never destroy the world again by water?

There are some who try to rationalize that flood, such as the sinking of Atlantis or the eruption of a volcanic island off the coast of Greece. Primitive people saw in the violent acts of nature the working of an angry god. I know that God is the God of all nature, even nature on the rampage. He is also the God of love. Knowing this, “I am not afraid of storms, for in the lightening flare

I catch the wonder of His face, and know that God is there.” □

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