The Yo-Yo effect

With seminary hopefully starting back up this week, pending Irene and her path. I do have an announcement though that I am no longer fully itinerant as I was last year as I have moved full time to school. Figures my first weekend is a hurricane. Also a display of Gods sense of humor, I was supposed to preach at my new church tomorrow. Yeah about that…

Anyways doing hurricane prep reminded me of a discussion we had in bible study two springs ago. The discussion was when we give something to God but then we take it back or the yo-yo effect. A lot of people when natural disasters strike say its God trying to tell us something, that we are naughty, or not listening to God or not acting with God’s intent. I don’t buy it, never have and likely never will. I do however think that the disrespect we are showing the earth has an effect upon the wacky weather lately. But back to the point.
On Thursday I moved in and went to dinner with a peer and it was great. She needed to stop at the grocery store here in town. Going in it was already pandemonium. Something in my mind told me to get water then, and it was a darn good thing I did. Yesterday I went to go out to prepare and to get food to um eat next week after the storm, and a few other odds and ends. Holy cow people, let the mass panic ensue. People pushing shoving, practically dive bombing items.
Now I’m all for being prepared as my roommate and I have stowed water all over the place in the apartment. But this gets me to thinking God created and is creating and the animals are taken care of, so surely we are also going to be taken care of. Maybe we should collective panic less and plan more. Listen if you’re in an evacuation zone and get the hell out*. But be nice to one another and try to love the stupid people who do stupid things in a storm. But above all try to learn to trust and to not yo-yo.




*to quote Gov. Christy