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Gas gone, food gone, traffic at a dead stop for nearly 150 miles, windows boarded, ply wood in a shortage, no tickets available at airports, every gas station is nearly, if not sold out of gas...a town with over 57.247 (as of 2000) being mandatory evacuated. This is pure controlled (and sometimes not) insanity. You would think that there was a terrorist attack, or something else to that effect, but no, it's just an over looming natural disaster.
A category 5 hurricane to be exact that is headed straight for Galveston county. Although predicted to hit as a category 4, this storm is going to cause some major damage. Yet I'm the one saying that everything will be okay, and that it's just a storm. Am I truly the one that's insane? A storm can cause physical damage, all you need to see that is the effects of hurricane Katrina. Roofs ripped of houses, houses flooded up to peoples necks, a once thriving city that looks like nothing more then a graveyard now. It can cause mental damage as well. Watch the evening news, this will give you more reality TV than you ever wanted to see. But just as Physical damage can be healed Mental can too.
I have a certainty that everything is going to be fine, we have a heavenly Father that loves us, and through this all, all of the insanity, all of the tears, all of the pain and suffering, when you think that things are not okay, all we have to do is pray, and remember that we are baptized. We have our salvation, it is guaranteed to us. Christ died so that we would no longer have to worry about our sins. "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved..." In times of stress, and angst, we need to take comfort in these words, everything we need in this world is provided for us. All in his word and sacrament. His gifts are given to us, in baptism and at the alter every (or every other) Sunday. So as the people in south east Texas panic, just remember that in all tribulation, no matter what we are baptized into Christ.
"For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows" 2 Corinthians 1:5
Edited on: September 22nd, 2005 11:58 pm
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