All around Mississippi this morning, our scars are burning. Scars on our bodies, our landscape and our hearts. We watch the devastating scenes from Oklahoma and we pray. We see parents living our worst nightmares — children found dead buried in the rubble of their schools. We mourn as a community is wiped out and its citizens are left with nothing but their lives. We watch the aftermath of the brutal winds and we see the outpouring of good from total strangers. And it’s all too familiar. In Yazoo City, Ackerman, Smithville, Tupelo, Clinton, South Jackson, the Mississippi Gulf Coast and other places ravaged by Mother Nature’s winds, we feel empathy. And pain.
Tornadoes are a fact of life in Oklahoma and Mississippi. But this one, well this one was different. It was like the tornado that wiped out Smithville — It was God’s eraser. Even the more hardened weather observers are left breathless by its total destruction. And the rest of us are left unnerved.
Bless the people of Moore, Oklahoma. There but for the Grace of God go us.
Well said.
I feel deeply what you are saying here but I have to disagree with one line – “This is Gods eraser”.
God is love. Where you will find God in this is with the heros that risked life and limb to save others, with the first responders and search and rescue teams that will leave their families for weeks to help people they never knew. You will find God in the prayers of those comforting those who lost loved ones. God didn’t author this destruction. This would have just been another fascinating tornado video had it not hit a population but it did and it brought devastation. God can be found today, on the ground, in the prayers of a nation and in His people, picking up the pieces in Moore, Oklahoma.
You just made my point except for your disagreement with my one line — which was more a statement about the size, magnitude and power of the tornado, not a SUnday school statement.
Understood. Praying for Oklahoma.
Amen!!
Thank you for the bottom of our hearts. We appreciate it. I may be an Oklahoman via relocation, but I’m an Oklahoman. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned in my time here, we will prevail.