The news of Findlay, Ohio has the attention of our nation's news media (and some overseas bureaus in the Midwest.)The Thursday, Aug. 23 edition of the Los Angeles Times ran a color photo by AP photographer Madalyn Ruggiero of four rescuers guiding an inflatable raft through an intersection of the city. No pavement, just water.
Rain? So how is that news?
Well, when it doesn't stop, we have problems.
We also have problems when we dig holes in the ground and the earth burps.
One lesson we learn from Findlay and from Huntington, Utah, is that we are not in control. Not Doppler radar, not the National Weather Service, not the most sophisticated measuring equipment can completely prepare us for what this planet will do either in the swirling atmosphere or in the ground under our feet.
Newscasters like to leave us with a sense of hope —— the encouragement that we're okay. The problem is, we're not. (And we don't hear that much in today's news. Makes for bad ratings.)
It's said the only sure thing in life is that there's no sure thing.
But that's only partially true.
There's a song about this. (There usually are.)
This one was written by a group of musicians called the Sons of Korah thousands of years ago. They wrote it in the mountainous regions of what is now Israel or Syria.
Unpredictable as the sky or the very ground under us (or over us) can be, they said, "God is our refuge, an ever-present help in trouble."
Things will change. That we can count on.
But in all life's uncertainties, we have the assurance that God is constant.
And He is there for us when we call on Him.
Does that make all the suffering easier? No.
But it gives us peace inside — where no external reality can touch us.
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Ahhhh... like a pre-class devotional message to these ears. Thanks, Mike!
Funny the things we remember. I used to do those like a ritual. I've stopped because the boredom factor has risen significantly over the years. But I do them occasionally — and enjoy it!
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