“Comfort, comfort My people” – (Isaiah 40:1)

Claudia Lauer’s byline emitted a long, flat tone like the one for floods: “Everyone in the Texas community of Comfort survived the flood thanks to warning sirens.” (AP, July 10, 2025)

Stationed at the helm of this unincorporated town of two thousand souls were the sagacious leaders of volunteer fire department, who learned from the overflowing lessons of history instead of wallowing in the seething histrionics from the cloud-seeding conspiracy clubbers, worked their humanitarian will for finding funds for upgrading the sirens system for tornadoes and floods. They found the funds for the sirens for tornadoes and floods. And the community of Comfort lost not a single soul to the treacherous floods of 2025.

Comfort.

Now there is a name which lived up to its name and character. And the name of the saved town led me to remember the foreshadowing words of Prophet Isaiah.

“The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.” (Isiah 40:6-8)

Since science tells us that “Each of us breathes, with every breath, at least one molecule of those 25 sextillion air particles that were a part of Caesar’s last breath,” we must also have one molecule of Prophet Isiah’s last Cry (Isiah suffered a gruesome martyrdom), so must we cry for all the unaccounted souls due to the people in authority and power treating trusting, innocent souls as the grass.

Please read the following press report, and Cry, my beloved adopted country in behalf of the innocent lives lost to floods of 2025.

“Back in 2011, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) included Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian camp, in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” for its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County, according to the Associated Press and The New York Times.

“This designation required Camp Mystic to have flood insurance and caused it to face stricter construction regulations.

“In 2013, following an appeal from the camp, FEMA amended the map and removed 15 buildings owned by the camp from the hazard area, the AP reported. These structures were part of Camp Mystic Guadalupe, where the camp said 27 campers and counselors died from the July 4 flood.

“While some buildings in the zone were higher than the 100-year flood level, six of the 15 buildings identified were described as being within three feet, according to the Times.”

So, my fellow southern countrymen and women, join me in honoring the one molecule from Prophet Isiah’s Cry present in our each and every breath for the comfort of the souls swept away by the July 4 flood.

Let us cry shame to those who ran roughshod in the grass of humanity.