Letter To The Editor

Dear Editor:

I am responding to the Waitsburg City Council's doubt about the "political correctness" of praying for guidance to govern.

Perhaps I shouldn't mention God in fear of making some city councilmen or citizens in our community uneasy. However, it is the whole point of my concern for hope that Waitsburg will survive.

Have we forgotten the flood of 1996? Did Waitsburg survive by man's wisdom or was it by that ever present Power of a merciful God of Grace? (He is a personal God you know!)

There were many of us praying for His mercy against being swept away in a moment of time against the great power and unfathomable forces of water. In light of God's mercy He sent loving hands of His calling to help us in our distress.

How can we but pray openly with simple faith and thanksgiving for future guidance as to how we should live to govern this small community, built on a delta, lying directly in Nature's pathway for destruction?

We humbly need forgiveness for minimizing our constant need of a sovereign Redeemer to remain a "One-of-a-Kind" community of God-fearing citizens or we condemn ourselves to what was-one of a kind. . . . Which will it be?

Sincerely,

Phillip Monfort

Waitsburg