Disruptions happen

The War Department intends to take possession of your farm…

That opening line to a letter is what about 300 farmers who lived in Bear Creek Valley in Eastern Tennessee received in mid-November of 1942.  The sentence continues...... 

"... take possession of your farm on December 1, 1942. It will be necessary for you to move, not later than that date."

Fourth and fifth-generation farmers, with little contact with the outside world, secure in their lives, families, farms, get a letter that tells them to move within two weeks. 

This area became Oak Ridge, TN which went from a population of about 3,000 to about 75,000 in a year or so, and built the plants which enriched the uranium that made the atomic bomb possible which ended WWII.

There are always disruptions to life coming. We can't be surprised when they show up.

 Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant.

If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

When darkness hides His lovely face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil

On Christ the solid Rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand

The disruption we walk in these days may have not been expected, but it happened. During this time it is great to remember that our foundation, our hope, our future is in the One who knows all and controls all.