February 24, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, February 24.
Have you ever heard of the Battle of Los Angeles? It occurred on February 24, 1942, during World War II. On that night, LA was under a black-out, air raid sirens were wailing, and over 1400 artillery shells were fired at the enemy.
The enemy, it turned out, was a weather balloon.
February of 1942 was a time of great fear in the United States. The Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor just three months before. Rumors and misinformation were running rampant in the media and throughout the population. The same week that this “battle” happened, President Roosevelt signed an executive order allowing authorities to round up 120,000 Japanese-Americans, most of them U.S. citizens, sending them to internment camps. They spent the next three years surrounded by barbed wire and guard dogs, and many of them lost their homes, their businesses, their health.
Fear can foster great panic, can give new life to old prejudices, can lead to poor decisions. As human beings, as Americans, as children of God, we can find peace and justice and wisdom. And we can find hope in 2 Timothy 1:7. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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