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		Published August 30, 2017 by <a href="https://debbyhudson.com/author/debby-hudson/" title="Posts by Debby Hudson" rel="author">Debby Hudson</a>	</div>
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			<h1 class='entry-title'>Who are we when the storms rage?</h1>
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				<p>When hurricane Katrina hit (ironically a few days away from being 12 years to the day of Harvey), there were mumbles it happened to the city of New Orleans because of their wicked ways. It was God’s judgment. I heard the implications from people I knew and was horrified these thoughts could come from people of faith.</p>
<div>Houston has more mega churches than any city in America. What are people mumbling now?</div>
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<div>Most of us know the story about Jesus calming the storm. It’s a dramatic story with all the fishermen on the boat fearing for their lives as they are overcome with a raging storm. I imagine, being men of the sea, they were doing plenty to steady the boat, to battle the winds. Somehow, Jesus was sleeping through this. As their last resort, the men woke him up with screams of “Don’t you care we’re going to drown?” Yes, his faithful followers were just like us: questions and doubts in the face of fear.</div>
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<div>In no more than a handful of words, Jesus calmed the storm.</div>
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<div>We’ve used it as a metaphor to get through figurative storms of life. We proclaim <em>we know the one who calms the storms</em>. We use this story and our words to bring comfort to others. <em>God is in control!</em></div>
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<div>Can I tell you? These words don’t do much for me in the face of devastation. I do believe in God’s sovereignty but I don’t come close to understanding it.</div>
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<div><a href="https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC_0288-1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12348" src="https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC_0288-1.jpg" alt="" width="2325" height="2325" srcset="https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC_0288-1.jpg 2325w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC_0288-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC_0288-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC_0288-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC_0288-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC_0288-1-610x610.jpg 610w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC_0288-1-400x400.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 2325px) 100vw, 2325px" /></a></div>
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<div>What I do know is prayers are being said over and over and the rain continues to fall.</div>
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<div>Twenty-five years ago it was our community preparing for a direct hit from Hurricane Andrew. We brought lawn chairs and potted plants inside. He boarded up the windows while I packed up things inside. We packed the kids, dog and my mom who was visiting, into our mini van and hitched our pop-up camper and headed inland and north. We took shelter.</div>
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<div>We were fortunate not to sustain a direct hit. We became support for others who had direct involvement in the long-term <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SalArmyEDS/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disaster services</a>.</div>
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<figure id="attachment_12349" style="max-width: 960px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-dog.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-12349" src="https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-dog.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="720" srcset="https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-dog.jpg 960w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-dog-300x225.jpg 300w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-dog-768x576.jpg 768w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-dog-610x458.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Houston, TX</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_12350" style="max-width: 960px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-rescues-kids.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-12350" src="https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-rescues-kids.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="720" srcset="https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-rescues-kids.jpg 960w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-rescues-kids-300x225.jpg 300w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-rescues-kids-768x576.jpg 768w, https://debbyhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Jay-rescues-kids-610x458.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Hurricane Harvey Houston, TX 2017</figcaption></figure>
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<div>But this hit to Houston, our country&#8217;s fourth largest city, is unprecedented.  The images of people in wheelchairs in the midst of flood waters are heart <strong>breaking</strong>. Photos of first responders carrying children to safety are heart <strong>warming</strong>. My emotions are a mess just watching the evening news.</div>
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<div>What keeps coming to mind is less than 3 weeks ago, our eyes were on the ugliest parts of humanity: we turned against each other with violence in the name of hate.</div>
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<div>Two pictures of America. One captures the ugliest of ugly and the other, the ones playing out now of rescue efforts from the storm, depicts true beauty. <strong>Who are we?</strong></div>
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<div>Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous quote says only love can overcome hate. Can we sustain the kind of love we see when disaster comes our way? Can we show compassion in sunny days too? Why does it take hurricanes and sorrow to blur the lines of politics and color?</div>
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<div><strong>“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.</strong></div>
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<div>Somewhere, in the midst of these storms, God offers peace. Peace for the tens of thousands whose lives have been ravaged by a hurricane. It’s harder to imagine peace can be found for hearts wrapped in hatred but it is the call of Jesus. It is the call to lay down your fears, hate, bigotry, pride, selfishness, and turn to the one who is Peace.</div>
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<div><strong>&#8220;My peace is the legacy I leave to you. I don’t give gifts like those of this world. Do not let your heart be troubled or fearful.&#8221; John 14:27</strong></div>
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								<p>Yes, God offers peace, but do we really ask for it? I think many times our prayers are just words until we realize we can&#8217;t sustain ourselves. I know it took me consciously praying for a calm peaceful heart every day for me to start seeing a difference.<br />
Praying for Houston. I can&#8217;t even imagine.</p>
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								<p>I wonder, Sarah? I also wonder what kind of peace we expect. Sometimes I think our version of peace means no troubles or problems. I&#8217;m learning all spiritual practices are just that &#8211; practices. Acts that need to be repeated over and over. That&#8217;s where I often fail. Thanks for your insight.</p>
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								<p>This is good, Debby.  I recently read something from Tim Keller that keeps bubbling to the surface these days for various reasons.  Loosely paraphrased, he said that the reason we struggle so much with &#8220;suffering&#8221; is that we are not clear on our true reason for being on this earth.  We think it&#8217;s all about us having a good time and enjoying the pleasures, when really we are here to get to know God better and to prepare for eternity.  When I fight against the adversity that comes, I miss the whole point.</p>
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								<p>Very interesting, Michele. Even as Christians we can be too easily fooled by what the world tells us our purpose is. Thanks for sharing that. I do like Keller.</p>
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