Since it’s on most folks’ minds these days, I looked up some quotes about fire.
The most tangible of all visible mysteries – fire.
Leigh Hunt
Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
Susanne Katherina Langer
A small spark can start a great fire
Emmet Fox
Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail van Buren
How can we extinguish a fire if we don’t first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?
Arun Gandhi
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
Harry Houdini
Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.
Latin proverb
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Latin proverb
It also concerns you when the nearest wall is burning.
Latin proverb
I guess if we (or someone with “know-how”) really could make it rain, some folks would be thrilled and others would be angry/disappointed/frustrated. But for now, the folks in Oregon would be in the “thrilled” category. And we would be thrilled for them.
For lack of wood the fire goes out,
and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.
Proverbs 26:20 (New Revised Standard Version)
When situations become tense and out-of-one’s-control, quarreling often ramps up. How frustrated and scared and anxious they all must feel–the homeowners and fire fighters and local officials and friends and family members, close and distant.
My sister, in the Seattle area, says that, while they are safely at a distance from the fires, the skies are yellow and dystopian, and the sun looks like a drawing that a young child might draw of a big red ball.
The creek fire is 30 miles from our house. We just pray that The mono winds do not change. The winds are what has made the fire so dreadful. It has been a week of terrible air quality. We are safe but the winds are kicking up again. Last week it was 108 but the temperature is in the 80s this week. We pray continually for the safety of the firefighters.