Most days are like any other day. Everyone has their specific morning routine. You may wake up, brush your teeth maybe, watch TV, shower, etc, etc.
Most mornings I wake up and the first thing I do is check twitter. Kinda weird, I know but this morning I did and I saw so many people tweeting about Japan. It led me to immediately open up my news app and see what exactly was going on.
Let me say, I have actually be in 3 earthquakes. One in Acapulco, Mexico in 8th grade; and the other 2 in San Diego, CA and Puerto Rico last year. Kinda a lot for one person! So, I have definitely felt the ground shake. It's almost like your mind is playing tricks on you and it takes you a moment to realize that the ground and the walls are actually moving. Thankfully no one I know or myself was ever injured so to think that this people below woke up to this earthquake followed by a tsunami COMPLETELY. BLOWS. MY. MIND.
I kinda start to think why them?, why does it "seem" like natural disasters hit communities and countries that have a harder time rebounding and recovering. I mean the list could go on and on but Haiti, Japan, Indonesia...you get the idea. If you haven't seen the link below (which you probably have) it is crazzzzyyyy. I mainly put it in here so in years I can go back and just remember what this was like.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709850
The one cool thing that I have seen everywhere though is how people, celebrities, government officials are tweeting and talking about "praying for Japan". News websites like Fox News and CNN are talking and writing about how people are praying for Japan. Maybe it's just me but I feel like this is not the norm. But it makes me grateful that so many people see that prayer is the only answer for something this horrible. Prayer is probably the ONLY things that can comfort so many of those people right now. Losing family members, every possession, EVERYTHING - I really can't imagine. It's like everything that defined you is just wiped away, literally.
So today and hopefully most days from here on out, I'm really choosing to live in the moment. God does not promise us tomorrow. He doesn't say that we will wake up the exact same way we do every other day. He doesn't promise that things like this won't happen.
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” James 4: 13-15
I will definitely be keeping the people of Japan in my prayers as they struggle to survive this.
Thanks for the scripture you included. I need to remember too to be grateful for each day the Lord gives me and ask Him what His will is for me that day. Thank you for your blog. I enjoy reading it.
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