"Hey, I'm Dan and I hear you guys need a ride,"
Dan Todd, Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer
It is not easy to write about “God’s Grace” in the face of disasters and loss. It is certainly not the words that I hear on the news reports covering Hurricane Sandy.
Despite that reality, I have seen God’s grace in the concerns expressed and organized by and in caring communities. It happens by preparation, rescue and recovery. Those realities also occur in our personal lives when we are threatened by “storms” that we name as diseases that profoundly change our ordered and ordinary lives.
So here is how I would describe God’s grace. It is that “extraordinary” reality that we see when God intervenes. It is not about the disaster or disease, it is about the responses we see in the community of faith and those organizations that are the healing agents. Help us to see the reality of God’s healing and blessings in our communities and our lives even during life’s storms.
Marvin
References
See message by Rev. Ernie Thompson, “Hardships and Blessings”, 10/28/2012 at First Presbyterian Church Wilmington, NC
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