Disaster

This morning I was planning out my day and working on some things while it's nice and quiet at home. I signed on to FB to check out what's going on, and one of my friends who lives near Colorado Springs had checked in to say he and his family are safe right now, thank goodness. Another friend had posted unbelievable pictures of the fire destroying homes and encroaching on the Air Force Academy. I began to feel embarrassed about how mundane my concerns are compared with the people who are staring down fires and other disasters.

I've always thought about working on disaster relief crews. In fact, one of the schools I was considering offers a master's degree in international disaster relief. I don't know if I'll ever be in a position to help in situations like this, though I'd like to.

The thing that is so frustrating is to be completely unable to help at all.  Though of course I'm praying for those families and firefighters, it seems like such a small thing when you look at the sheer magnitude of those fires in Utah and Colorado. And yet, our God is a mighty God, is he not? So though I can't do anything practical at the moment, I can put my faith in God that he knows what he's doing.