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I want to let you the reader know upfront that I never write about the topic you are fixing to read and this will probably be the last time I delve into a topic such as this, I guess because I don't want to come across as harping or pushing my personal beliefs on others. But with everything that is taking place in our country and the world today, with the terrible storms and floods that are ravaging the south, I felt compelled. Recently when one turns on the news today, it seems to be a certain theme running. Storms in the south, flooding along the Mississippi and most recently another tornado in Joplin Missouri have run a painful course dealing damage and wrecking homes, businesses and even lives. In times of people greatest need when they have lost absolutely everything, where do they turn? After all, the world itself is going through some very trying times. With wars waging in the Middle East, the earthquake in Japan and some of the worst weather in the U.S. since hurricane Katrina. With hurricane season around the corner we may still see the worst yet to come. It can be difficult for one to grasp and wrap your head around just how impactful these events can be. I think everyone knows just how bad hurricane Katrina was, if it did not affect you personally surely you have seen or heard about it on the news for quite a while after it was over, but the effects are still felt today. Your life is going along day to day, and all of a sudden just a few hours later it is changed forever. You first realize the damage that is done to your own home. Then you take notice of the damage to your neighborhood, your city and then your state. Beyond the damage, you then are confronted with the loss of life, be it loved ones or friends. If you were blessed enough to not have anyone pass away due to these storms you certainly heard stories of it on the news. Beyond that, your place of work may no longer even be there so now you may very realistically be out of a job until your place of work can be rebuilt. While social programs are setup to help in these situations that is merely all they do, help. I consider myself to be an average American. I have little to no savings, I live paycheck to paycheck and as a survivor of hurricane Katrina I can tell you it was one of the most trying times in my life. In the end there is no one really to turn to except God. I was raised up as a Catholic. I went to church every Sunday and was also an altar boy. As a young child I was very involved. As an adult I am not involved at all. I consider my relationship with God to be my personal relationship with Him. In short I am a person of extreme faith, but no longer religious by any means. In recent years I can honestly say that I have had serious lapses in my faith with God and I can also surmise that anyone going through trying times such as this, with the stroms, may also be having a test of faith. The recent tornado in Joplin MO. has killed 116 people as I write this, and the death toll is rising. One of the first things people do when tragedy like this strikes is they thank God they are alive and pray that their family and friends are alive as well. Why do they do this? Does God really have some vested interest in who lives and dies especially in weather related events? Beyond the weather, look at your local headlines, rape, murder and kidnappings. The list can go on and on of the absolute unspeakable evil that is in our world today. Does God really have a say in this? This is where I personally have had a trying time in my relationship with God. If He really cared and really loved us, would he let this happen? The answer is yes, after all these events are taking place. In my own experience with Katrina it wasn't God who helped me and my family. It was my fellow man. Our power was out and it would be out for roughly two weeks. We had gone at least five days without ice and it was in the middle of what seemed like one of the hottest summers I can remember. I recall one of our neighbors happened to have a generator running. I was never the type of person to bother our neighbors with anything. I promise you I am the type of person who will never knock on your door and ask to borrow a cup of sugar, I just don't do it. However it was extremely hot and we had been doing clean up in the yard and making some home repairs, so my wife and I went over to our neighbor's house and asked if he happened to have any ice and if so could he please spare some. I can remember it like it was yesterday. He gave us a gallon sized Ziploc bag full of ice and said if we needed anymore to just come and ask. Oh the joy I felt. I had never been so happy as to have ice in all my life. At the time, I would have paid $100 for that bag of ice because it was so hot out, but our neighbor was gracious enough to offer what he had plus if we needed more, to just come and get it. It was the first time we had met our neighbor, but it was a friendship in the making. My wife ended up making this man pies every few months at first as a thank you but then because he was a friend. That's right, God didn't provide in our time of need, our neighbor did. When we needed food, God didn't provide food, local groups did. When the credit card companies let us skip a month of paying the bill again it wasn't God but man. If you try and bring God into the equation of daily events you will drive yourself mad. After all, God doesn't make a drunk driver wreck into a car filled with children and kill them, that is also our fellow man. So where does this leave us in times of crises? It took me 34 years to come up with the answer. God truly lets the world dictate its own speed and path. Man makes all the choices not God. But I can absolutely tell you that God is working his will, not as we always want it, but it is there. When these events take place such as Joplin MO. or Tuscaloosa Al. with the tornados. We have no one to rely on but ourselves. That is where God is making his mark. When our neighbor gave us the ice that day, that was God at work. When a family looses absolutely everything in their life, God provides the support from our fellow man to help ease the burden. When you hear about the killings in Libya on the civilians, that is not God's will. But when the people have had enough and they rise up in the face of utter destruction and strangers begin helping strangers, that is Gods will at work. It took me 34 years of my life to be able to see God's will. Whenever you help a family member or even a complete stranger you are doing God's work. I myself, have been blessed with a loving wife who is there for me during my most trying times, and my mother who was there from the start. Whenever I am going through a stage where it feels like everything is falling apart I know they will be there for me. It is through them that I feel Gods love and impact on my life. My heart goes out to these families affected by these tornadoes and flooding. If you can't give to them because of your own situation then at least pray for them, because in times like these the only people they can count on is each other and in mans time of dire need, we all become neighbors and friends. I told you at the top of this page I felt compelled to write this. Let me clarify my statement. I absolutely love to write, and it is usually on sports subjects. My mother lives in north Alabama and has seen what the destruction has caused and she said that the situation there is so bad there that I ought to write about it. My wife also jumped on the band wagon and after some light prodding and a week of thought, I sat down to write this. My hope in writing this is that people will better understand just how bad the situation is in these storm affected communities and will help in whatever way they can, even if it is just as simple as giving your neighbor a bag of ice. So there it is again, God is speaking to the most important women in my life, which in turn gave me the words to write this article. God does not cause the pain in our life, but he does grace us with the tools to help out our fellow man in time of need in our own little way. |
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