Labor Day Weekend 2016 Storm Watch

United States Commemorative Stamp

honoring Labor Day

released on September 3, 1956

Camden, New Jersey

Labor Day weekend in the United States,

 is an official holiday saluting the

working man and woman,

 a time for barbecues and beach parties,
and for happy memories as

summer vacation ends, and

many children head back to school,

while their older brothers and sisters

leave home to live on a college campus, or

 venture out into the working world for the first time.

Here on the East Coast, residents are

playing a "wait and see" game as the season's

first major hurricane, now downgraded to a 

tropical storm, makes her way northward

after making landfall near St. Mark's,

a town on the Gulf Coast of Florida

early Friday morning

September 2, 2016

 Hurricane Hermine is the first tropical storm

to hit the state of Florida in 11 years, where her high

winds and rain battered the state's Gulf Coast region.

 Now a tropical storm, in the past 24 hours, she has dumped a

deluge of rain across Georgia and the Carolinas.

Please keep the people caught in the path

of this unpredictable storm in your prayers!

“Thou art with me.”

 Psalm 23:4

 "When the storms of life are raging,
Stand by me (stand by me);
When the storms of life are raging,
Stand by me (stand by me);
When the world is tossing me
Like a ship upon the sea
Thou Who rulest wind and water,
Stand by me (stand by me)."

-Charles Tindley

(1905)

Walking on the Water 

 Julius Sergius von Kleve