thought on the news of the day: Powerless?

hmmm…..

            The weather is in the news today.  A 7.7 magnitude earthquake erupted  off of the coast of Indonesia triggering a tsunami that has killed 23 people and left scores of others missing.  Footage of a tornado in Rice, Texas depicts the devastating damage inflicted on the community there.  Two boys were electrocuted Saturday during a downpour in a suburb of Dallas when they got caught in rushing water and grabbed a live downed electrical wire.    There are many things which technology has conquered and learned to control, but as of yet, the weather is not one of them.

            We think we are in control because we can walk in a room and flip a switch and the light comes on; we can log on to our computer and have the world’s news at our fingertips.  We can enter a doctor’s office and find a cure for most common diseases.

            But there is much over which we still have no control.  We can’t control when it rains, how much it snows and how hot it gets in the summer time. We can’t control what other people do, think or say.  And we certainly can’t control when our time is up here on this earth.

            Powerless?  Just about the only thing we really have control over is our own attitude.  We can choose at any time to defer to a power greater than ourselves. And that in turn makes us powerful. 

            hmmm…..