tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post1865352764687219578..comments2024-01-03T18:00:06.854-06:00Comments on Webutante: Epic Nashville Floods: When The News Comes To Your Front DoorWebutantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02139954791621532194noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-91777293084626015562010-05-19T11:16:31.321-05:002010-05-19T11:16:31.321-05:00Greg, thanks for your comment. Sorry about losing...Greg, thanks for your comment. Sorry about losing your broadband connection....though sometimes it can be a blessing....<br /><br />I don't know about the real condition of the couple's souls---being 'religious' is not necessarily the same as Saving Faith---and I do hope they believed in Christ as their only hope and Savior. Anything else would make it a real and eternal tragedy, that is if you believe what's written in the Bible.<br /><br />God bless.Webutantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02139954791621532194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-15936240437110016662010-05-19T00:19:48.302-05:002010-05-19T00:19:48.302-05:00Thank you for the follow up.
I left some items ...Thank you for the follow up. <br /><br />I left some items hanging out two weeks ago - including this, then my cable connection crashed over the weekend of the 8th, and I left it crashed for several days, b/c I needed to handle some things away from internet, anyway. Then I got back on internet and, over time, realized I had left things hanging in several places, and only bit by bit caught myself up. I apologize for not responding and thanking you sooner for the follow up. <br /><br />When contemplating the sudden death of the drowned Episcopalian couple: my comfort is in my knowledge of their faith; is in my faith that their souls exist as before, albeit in a different dimension; is in my faith that walking on Earth is merely a stage of existence, that the couple are, even now, together and communing with God in a Greater Existence. <br /><br />I've been quietly traumatized, for most of my life, by the tragedy of the certain future deaths of my loved ones, of myself, of all humans. I've felt it is tragic, unfair, cruel. Why even try to accomplish anything when everything will only come to dust and heartbreak? Ecclesiastes sings my song of futile depression, only I add a large dollop of psychic pain and suffering.<br /><br />Only relatively recently have I begun to feel the shadow of the feelings of futility and of tragic awfulness lift. The shadow has lifted as my faith has grown. God has lifted the shadow. I used to say, at an intellectual level of understanding, that our souls are immortal. But I didn't GET IT in my bones, in my soul. My faith wasn't strong enough for me to trust in the truth that our souls are immortal, that heaven will be a better existence than this existence. I would mouth all of that, and I would want to believe it, and would tell myself I believed it. But our existence is not strictly about our intellectual understanding. I didn't truly GET IT and TRUST IT at a spiritual level. And, therefore, I didn't actually get it, at all. <br /><br />But I do get it now. Getting it, a a spiritual level, is still new to me. Trusting that this existence is just a stage in a never ending existence ... is still new to me ... fresh ... I'm still in the honeymoon phase of having faith in the concept!<br /><br />But I do have faith in the concept. It gives me comfort when thinking of the Episcopalian couple. Whatever they went through: were their heads banged in a crash into concrete? were they half conscious and woozy? Were they calm or frightened? Did a window break and water rush in? Whatever they went through: they are still them ... b/c they always were, above all else, defined by their souls which go on forever and ever. It's comforting. I hope it doesn't seem flippant to say that; doesn't seem as if I'm ignoring their ordeal, or ignoring the pain of their loved ones left behind. Don't intend flippancy. Just saying: comforting.gcotharnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10912428161978690599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-31594295748211800132010-05-04T19:47:03.012-05:002010-05-04T19:47:03.012-05:00Greg, as promised I wanted to give you and other ...Greg, as promised I wanted to give you and other readers an update on the fate of the woman in my post above who had allegedly been swept away in the raging waters Sunday morning.<br /><br />Today, Tuesday, I learned indeed her body, along with that of her husband was found this morning behind the Krogers grocery in the photo above along with their battered vehicle as waters subsided. It seemed they were on their way to the Episcopal church up the street around 9 am Sunday and the husband who was driving came to the impasse in the road that had flooded into a huge body of moving water. For some reason he decided to attempt to drive on through it thinking his vehicle could make it. Within seconds they and it were swept away in the swirling currents along with their car. The rest is very sad history.<br /><br />I know of the couple but don't know them. It's actually a wonder more people didn't drown in this unbelievable tragedy.Webutantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02139954791621532194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-27597137137689863462010-05-03T09:13:05.571-05:002010-05-03T09:13:05.571-05:00Best wishes and prayers to you also Treg....I beli...Best wishes and prayers to you also Treg....I believe---HOPE---you have a typo in that last sentence in your first paragraph!<br /><br />JaneWebutantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02139954791621532194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-79011981169145316822010-05-03T09:02:23.940-05:002010-05-03T09:02:23.940-05:00In the 23 years I have lived here, we have had a 1...In the 23 years I have lived here, we have had a 100 year snowstorm, a 50 year ice storm, and the only question is which will be used to categorize this flood. Truly, living in the Mid South is interesting, in the Chinese curse sense. Still, I would think of moving.<br /><br />Prayers and best wishes to all.<br /><br />TregTregonseehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01705100658499499100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-71295236993553035772010-05-02T20:37:12.799-05:002010-05-02T20:37:12.799-05:00Will do, Greg. I shudder to think what will be fou...Will do, Greg. I shudder to think what will be found and where as flood waters recede.Webutantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02139954791621532194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-24830298900693990602010-05-02T20:32:26.176-05:002010-05-02T20:32:26.176-05:00Please update if the lost lady's fate becomes ...Please update if the lost lady's fate becomes known. thxgcotharnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10912428161978690599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-82477699319194184482010-05-02T19:59:56.353-05:002010-05-02T19:59:56.353-05:00Thank you Sir. It's been a long few days here...Thank you Sir. It's been a long few days here in Lake Nashville and many people have lost their homes. My heart goes out to them.Webutantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02139954791621532194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-24201311252511628942010-05-02T19:52:26.611-05:002010-05-02T19:52:26.611-05:00To be there, on the spot, means so much to those t...To be there, on the spot, means so much to those that respond because they now know someone cares. <br /><br />Be careful. Please.<br /><br />WV: toall. To all. How very appropriate.mRedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16391693179836662351noreply@blogger.com