Japan: Another disaster
This is becoming much too familiar. As I turned on the news this morning, I gasped. Oh no, not again. Like most of you I started a familiar dance – inching closer to the screen to see what was going on and mentally cataloging where my friends and family are. My niece is in Malaysia, she should be fine but my pilot friend often flies to Osaka, where is he today? A friend was going to Hawaii or is she just back from Hawaii? Time to hit Facebook and make sure we’re all accounted for.
I live on a fault line so earthquakes get talked about fairly often. But in the 15 years since I moved out to the coast I’ve only ever felt one, a single tremor that made the building tremble once and then snap back to center. I cannot imagine what it feels like to see the ground open up at your feet. Maybe it’s time to start putting together that emergency pack I started thinking about when I heard the news New Zealand a few weeks ago.
I don’t subscribe to doomsday thinking, but there is wisdom in being prepared. If you want to put together your own emergency kits there are lists of what to include. It wasn’t us this time, but who knows when the earth will shift again.
There is always a lot of confusion at a time like this: the chaos of people on the ground trying to find which way is up, and the confusion for the rest of us wondering why this keeps happening. Where is God in all of this? If you find yourself wondering that this morning, our free interactive lesson Why does God allow disaster? can be a great place to start.
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