Tsunami Ramblings

"You don't get it do you? Civilization protects us from nature." State of Fear, Michael Chrichton.

The news just gets worse and worse everyday. Estimates started with 30T dead and has done nothing but rise for the entire week. (it's now at 150T and counting.)

A question was asked, as it inevitably would this Christmas season... (after all, it was December 26, the day after Christmas, a day when Christians commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ and the saving love of God.) The question was (no, it was not "why?" - a question that has undoubtedly been asked millions of times this week), rather it started with a trite observation:

God speaks to us through events. So what is God's message here? Is there even a message? How can something so seemingly senseless even have a message?

I don't know the answer but I do have my 0.02 cents and this is it:

We like to believe we're masters of the earth and its forces; as if our technology and science makes us immune from the ravages and caprices of nature.

However, as the tsunami has demonstrated to so many, we are not the masters of nature, nature is the master of us.

A brutal reminder to be sure but one we would be well advised to remember.