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The region best known for its motto “laissez les bons temps rouler” — let the good times roll, may have let them roll too long.  Now Louisiana is facing very bad times.  It’s motto could now read, “The Sinking State.”

What is the problem?   For years the good times rolled and Mardi Gras was celebrated with parades, dancing and drinking.  What most residents didn’t notice, however, was that gradual changes were taking place in the landscape.  Scientists are saying that this is one of the greatest environmental and economic disasters in the nation’s history.

Gov. John Bel Edwards has now declared a state of emergency because of the state’s rapidly eroding coastline. He is asking President Trump to declare the erosion of Louisiana’s coast a national emergency.

People have lived in the Bayou for years not realizing that the earth under their feet was continually sinking.  Even the few who have been aware of the problem have not taken steps to deal with it.  In like manner, people attend our churches week after week not realizing the subtle changes that are taking place.  The attendance gradually declines, the fervor in the singing diminishes, prayer changes from the intense, passionate supplication to a formal address.  Slow erosion is what we will be discussion with the hope that we can finds ways to slow or halt its progress.