For the most part I try to write posts that are positive, with the intention of perhaps making my readers feel a little bit better about their lives. But there is so much wrong and so much evil in our country and in the world that it is difficult not to become discouraged.
Thinking that our president Barack Obama might've made some encouraging comments to the people in Texas who yesterday lost their homes and everything they possess because of an explosion in a nearby fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, I searched the Web.
Up to this morning I found no such comments. Certainly Obama has made many comments about the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut and the present Boston massacre during the Boston Marathon. There were children killed in Texas and many more deaths overall with the injured exceeding 100 people. Maybe the Texas tragedy is just not political enough.
In searching for such remarks I came across an article written by a fellow conservative who encourages everyone thinking about these dreaded tragedies in Newtown, Boston and Texas not to lose hope. He describes the many hardships he and his wife had to go through: his wife having surgery to avoid a prospect of cancer. His losing his job. His weeping uncontrollably in the rain holding his one year old child because he had to go to the hospital where his wife was very ill and tell her the doctors said she was going to die.
Then in a series of rapid seeming miracles, the spots on his wife's lungs were not cancerous as thought. His wife made a full recovery. He was offered a job with an increase in salary allowing his wife to stay at home with their daughter. It occurred to him that these events were simply not just luck but that the man upstairs, the Creator, was simply exercising his plan.
He reasoned that believing in God having a plan for each of us and trusting in that plan had brought about not only these recent miracles, but as he thought back in his life, many other miracles. He then realized that having trust in the man upstairs and his plan for himself and his family was the way that God wanted him to see things with hope and not yield to despair with so many things wrong in the world.
This was what I had recently come to in reading Scripture and in particular reading the epistles of the apostle of the Gentiles, St. Paul. Paul writes of placing our trust in God and not worrying about the catastrophes happening in the world. But for a moment earlier today I had forgotten this and really, does it make any difference whether the president or anyone else says good or bad things about the chaotic mess we see in the world? To me it doesn't matter; what matters is that we trust in the Lord and His plan for each of us which will bring us through all troubles and anxieties to a joyful place in accordance with His plan.
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