Do you ever feel that with all that’s going on in our nation that God has just let evil run wild? Does it make you wonder if He even sees it?

Proverbs 15:3 tells us that the “eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.” In addition, in Job, 34:21 we find “His eyes are upon the ways of man, and He seeth all his goings.”

However, God does see and know about the evil that surrounds us. He cares about what we are going through. He will never leave nor forsake us.

One thing that we can take hope in is that one day God will wipe away all the evil that confronts us each day and punish these evil doers just as He will establish the good and reward all who do His will.

Christian love and sympathy is extended to Horace and Sarah Plemons and Cindy and Al Shaw in the loss of Horace’s daughter and Cindy’s sister, Linda Plemons Hoppe. Her funeral was Wed., Oct. 15, in Affton, Mo.

Christian love and sympathy is extended to David and Ramona Dean in the loss of David’s niece’s husband, Mike Semich.

Christian love and sympathy is extended to Brenda and Dale McMinemon, Kathy and Chuck, David Ballew, Maxine Franklin, Seth and Anne Ballew and their families in the loss of their brother, Paul Ballew, who died Sat., Oct. 18, in Oklahoma.

Happy birthday wishes go out this week to Don Peebles, Peggy Shadden and Jeanne Dean, all on Oct. 23, Genea Sutton, Merci Stratman and Cindy Lackey, all on Oct. 25, Colton Gibson, Dakota Free and Doc Thompson, all on Oct. 26, Allen Townsend, Roxanne Tucker and Kathryn Monk, all on Oct. 27 and Kristy Halbrooks on Oct. 28.

Happy anniversary to Shannon and Kasonyia Briggs on Oct. 24 and Andy and Brenda Wilhite on Oct. 25.