A Wave of Despair … and Hope
I’m sitting in a hotel room in Appleton Wisconsin where it’s 20 below wind chill watching the Tsunami Aid concert on TV. Don’t kid yourself about the glamorous life of an airline pilot, I’m stuck here until Monday night. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job but I’d rather be at home with Dawn and the kids.
On TV they just did a piece on the number of kids that died in the tsunami and the number of kids that are now orphans. I promised myself that I’d be honest when I made entries on this blog so I’m going to be. My honest feeling is that I don’t get it. What’s up with this one God? Why did this happen? Why such an indiscriminate destructive force. I remember when my best friend died in 1987 and someone suggested that I read “When Bad Things Happen To Good People”. It didn’t help a bit, I thought it was a bunch of bull. The fleshy part of me feels that way now about the way I think about these 150,000 folks lost in the wave.
But unlike in 1987 I have a different perspective. I now have a perspective of hope at a time of despair. I know that I worship a sovereign God and I know that I don’t need to understand, I need to trust. I need to trust that these young people will be able to rebuild their lives and those that know the Lord will prevail. I need to trust that those who don’t might find Him in their despair. Something like a mass disaster is not for me to understand, It’s for God to reign over.
Please pray with me that a wave of hope will prevail after a wave of destruction. May the Great Physician work His healing in the region affected by this terrible disaster.