Spiritual Growth 07/08/2011
 
I joined the elders this morning as we prayed for our teens and adults heading to Tennessee for their summer mission project.  They had to be at the church by 5:30 a.m. so they could leave at 6:00 a.m.  What else would lure 22 teens and adults out of bed this early on a pleasant summer morning?  They’ll drive 600 miles today and sleep on the floor of a church and get back into the van and do it again on Saturday so they arrive in Morristown, TN in the afternoon on Sunday.  While they’re on the project, it is hard to say what will happen.
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I’ve been watching the death toll rise all afternoon from the tornados and storms in the southeastern part of our nation.  Right now we are close to 300 people killed.  Alabama has been especially hard hit.  Some of the twisters have been rated F5—that is the most powerful storm rating that we have.  Homes destroyed, neighborhoods wiped out, decades of life and prosperity have been obliterated in just of few moments of time.  We often call these storms, “acts of God,” not because He is their author, but because natural disasters display such power that in our minds, only God Himself could unleash that kind of devastation.
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The Weather 03/09/2011
 
Despite the fact that everyone that I know wants spring to hurry up and get here, it’s snowing AGAIN!  Fortunately, we’ve only got about three inches of the white stuff instead of the 6-8 inches originally forecasted.  The weather seems to be a hot topic for conversation around town.  Everyone has an opinion about it.  But I’ve noticed that no matter how much we hope, complain, or whine—that never changes what the weather does.  The weather never listens to me.  It does what it wants, when it wants to, where it wants to do it.  I also wonder about weather forecasters….
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I am very thankful that the latest storm passed us by.  We only had a couple of inches of snow; where to the south they had several inches of ice and then a foot or more of snow and then blowing winds.   In Chicago, Lake Shore Drive was shut down for over 36 hours as over 1,500 cars were snowed in after a traffic accident.  Snow piled up to the car windows and some cars were completely covered.  On Lake Shore Drive, there are plenty of office buildings nearby, but the blizzard-like conditions made it nearly impossible for people to walk to them safely.  In the blowing, swirling snow it was easy to become disoriented and visibility was less than 30 yards.  A number of people were stranded in their cars or on buses overnight until help could arrive to get them out.
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