After Cain killed Abel God confronted him with what he had done.  In Genesis 4: 11-12 God told Cain; “Now you are cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to  receive your brother’s blood from your hand.  When you till the ground it will not yield to you her strength.  A fugitive and vagabond  you shall be in the earth”.

Cain’s response was, “My punishment is greater than I can bear”. 

Cain was sent away from his parents and siblings.  The record is that he took only his wife and it also tells the names of his sons that she bore him.

Did Cain miss his parents and brothers and sisters?  Did he have his moments of longing to see and speak to them, perhaps to talk over the days work?

Are we heart sick when there are problems in our own family and we cannot work out a remedy for the hurt?

We often pray for God to bless America.  What do you think a blessing is?  Is it good economic time?  Is it a new car, raise in pay, a super good deal?  A married couple have a new baby and at 6 weeks take the child for it’s first drs. visit.  Before leaving the office the baby is stabbed in the fanny and given a shot.  Blessing?  The baby doesn’t think so.  But without it a number of diseases could beset this little bundle of joy.  The shot is for the babies own good.  God Bless America?  Is it a Katrina driving and/or drawing some people to God  or good economic times and all going to Hell?  A flat tire or missed appointment or the accident you would have been involved in that doesn’t happen?