In today’s Cape Cod Times, one letter to the editor was commenting on a column written by a pastor on April second questioning why God would let such disasters like Japan happen. The writer goes on to say:
“That’s not unusual. I can’t remember any tragedy that God ever stopped from happening. But, of course, there ARE words to explain that – just five simple words: Maybe there is no God!”
At first, this letter stopped me in my tracks. Stopped me short, because never in my entire life, ever, did I confront that possibility. I mean I’d heard in the news all the stories of the atheists and how they wanted the word God out of everything. I just remember thinking this is a group of crazies – no God? Seriously? And dismissed them. Those were news stories far away from where I live.
Today’s letter hit me with a harder punch because it was written by a local here in town. Real people. Real close. Hmmm….
Someone actually contemplates “no God”. After careful examination of myself and my MO of life, the jury’s in – there has to be a God and I am living proof of it. Whenever I take matters into my own hands, act impulsively, try to control the outcome, put myself before others, – another words, completely ignore God, I end up in a huge disaster. The hurricanes I get caught up in by losing my focus always draw me back to God – “lean NOT unto thine own understanding”. Giving the reins back to my Higher Power, where they belonged in the first place, doesn’t always solve the problem right away, but it quiets the storm. Relinquishing my control almost always brings a bit of peace, solid ground, and better ways n’ days.
Yes, we have disasters in this world, just like we do in our lives. Who’s to say they weren’t caused by mere men taking control, ignoring God, just like in my own life? (Granted man cannot control an earthquake, but he should certainly have been smart enough not to put a nuclear plant on a fault line) I daresay that if there were no God, and only mortal man to depend on, we’d have a whole lot more disasters than we already do – or the planet would’ve been doomed a long time ago if it were left to only man.
And so, as another day goes by, tonight “I pray the Lord my soul to keep” (cause I sure ain’t gonna trust it to mere man), and…I have written.
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