Considering all the horrific evil we see online and in the news I take comfort in this verse. Here is a list of some of the things God does to bring justice, repentance and restitution. 

WHAT DOES GOD'S VENGEANCE LOOK LIKE?

Here's a short description of how the Lord works to bring repentance and justice, and He is very effective.

The wicked will walk in the ways of darkness, their paths will be crooked and calamity will come suddenly. The years of the wicked will be shortened. Their dread will come like a storm; they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and a curse is on their house and they will be cut off from the land. They will be robbed of their sleep; drink the wine of violence, the stranger will inherit their hard earned goods, and the hope and expectation of the wicked will perish, and what they fear will come upon them. He will be held with the chords of his own sin; wounds and disgrace he will find, and there will be no healing. They ambush their own lives and ruin is at hand and God will mock them when their calamity comes; they will seek God but He will not answer.

"Forbes" put the costs of dog ownership, including all possible expenses, to be anywhere from $17,650 to a staggering $93,520, depending on size, breed, and services required. Now there are few, if any, commands to care for orphan pets, but every chapter of the Bible tells us to care for humans.

  There are five blessings promised: do you have them? 

1. The Lord rescues them when they are in trouble. 
2. The Lord protects them and keeps them alive.
3. He gives them prosperity in the land.
4. He rescues them from their enemies.
5. The Lord nurses them when they are sick and restores them to health. 

To whom does He promise these blessings too? 

To those who are kind to the poor and helpless. 
Ps. 41:1-3

These two pictures represent the most effective way we influence our children, say whatever words you may. 

"Children learn what they live." 

  "If we were called upon to describe an intellectual devil, with horns, and hoofs, and tail arrayed whose very presence was like blasting mildew upon the mind and heart, whose looks destroyed and whose breath benumbed, we should say his name was Self-Conceit."

"A nameless man, amid a crowd

That thronged the daily mart,

Let fall a word of hope and love,

Unstudied, from the heart.

A whisper on the tumult thrown,

A transitory breath,

It raised a brother from the dust,

It saved a soul from death.

O germ! O fount! O word of love!

O thought at random cast!

Ye were but little at the first,

But mighty at the last."

Charles Mackay.

Sensual needs

  "In times past, the stimulating and sensual texture of life used to be fulfilled on many levels, for example: sailing, weaving, fire-making, woodworking, cooking, the feel of tools, the handling and gentling of animals; travel that was not trajectory in an air-conditioned capsule; reading and real talk. Now in these times, life is so largely a spectator sport that the senses are starved, and it is still true that the devil finds work for idle hands. That is to say, unused energies explode where they can. For many, sex and crime are the only avenues to uniqueness and participation. In our controlled and increasingly homogenized social order, sexual expression is narrowed down to one channel, the erotic, so overloading it that it is becoming a burnt out case. Eroticism, in or out of marriage, cannot endow life with meaning, and sex retains its richness just so long as we bring meaning to it."  Advice to a Young Wife.

Overcoming Hardship

Overcoming Hardship

 "The early life of Andrew Jackson, nick-named "Old Hickory", will be an inspiration to us all. 
His father emigrated to North Carolina in 1765, and died five days after his son's birth. The mother, with her babe and two other children, then moved into a destitute portion of South Carolina, where Andrew's boyhood was passed. Their means was slender. When the Revolution broke out the oldest boy enlisted, and was killed. At he age of thirteen, Andrew, with his brother Robert, joined a corps of volunteers attached to General Sumter's brigade. 
  In the next year, 1781, both boys were captured by mounted soldiers. Andrew was ordered by an enemy officer to clean a pair of muddy boots, but Andrew proudly refused, whereupon the officer aimed a sword stroke at his head, which the boy parried, and thereby received a wound upon his hand which he bore for life. 
His brother was ordered to do the same thing for another officer, and for his refusal actually received a sword-cut upon the head from which he never recovered. The boys were imprisoned in Camden, and the boys suffered severely from their undressed wounds, and also from small-pox which raged among the prisoners. When at length they were exchanged along with five neighbors, and given to their mother, they were little more than mere wrecks. Their home was forty miles from the prison where they were released and there were but two horses for them all. On one, without saddle or bridle, Mrs. Jackson rode, on the other the weak and wounded Robert was borne; young Andrew, barefooted, half naked, and half sick with the small pox, trudging the whole distance on foot. A heavy rain set in, and drenched them to the skin, and drove the disease back again into the systems of the two boys. Two days after, Robert died, and Andrew hung upon the brink of death for two weeks. After his recovery, his mother died, and then, the boy who would become the seventh President of the United States, was left alone upon the earth, penniless and friendless."   

Let your words be few, 
especially when your superiors or strangers are present,
Lest you betray your own weakness, and rob yourself 
of the opportunity which you might otherwise have had
to gain knowledge, wisdom and experience by hearing 
those you silenced by your impertinent talking." 
Sir Matthew Hale.