Year in year out it is the same story. December would come and like an uninvited guest would gate crash your Christmas party. The intruder would be party, a wet wild kind, to be a ruin to many, leaving its hosts wet and grounded.It had wrecked property, upset school examination schedules and took lives from time immemorial. It must have happened all over the ages that the house designs in this part of the world involved stilts.
The annual floods this time seem to have hit us a carnage of Titanic proportions. Even medical personnel who normally be at limelight for victims to seek help now find themselves trapped in hospitals. And on top of it all, hospitals traditionally had been built on higher ground!
Rather than finding the root of the problem and thinking of ways to mete the problem with our God given minds, what do we do? Say it is all 'act of God'. Lest we forget, God helps those who help themselves.
We cut, we pilfer, we rape, we mutilate and we flatten Nature and we expect Nature not to retaliate.
Like the holy man who refused to budge from his place of worship when the river threatened to overflow its bank. He sent away a pickup van which came his way. As the tide rose further, he refused a hovercraft. His steadfast rock was the belief that he would be saved by the Almighty.
Now, he was holding on to the tallest pole of his place of worship. A helicopter was swirling around picking up stranded people. "It is okay. I'm good. God will take care of me!" he refused the rope that was hurled from the helicopter at his direction.
Unfortunately, no further aid came his way and he perished.
In the after-life, the holy man managed to secure an audience with the Big Guy. He stated his predicament of sacrificing his whole life for the work of the Divine only to be let down at the last moment through an act perceived as the wrath of God. God replied, "I sent a van, an hovercraft and a helicopter. You just refused to budge from your high chair!"
Rather than finding the root of the problem and thinking of ways to mete the problem with our God given minds, what do we do? Say it is all 'act of God'. Lest we forget, God helps those who help themselves.We cut, we pilfer, we rape, we mutilate and we flatten Nature and we expect Nature not to retaliate.
Like the holy man who refused to budge from his place of worship when the river threatened to overflow its bank. He sent away a pickup van which came his way. As the tide rose further, he refused a hovercraft. His steadfast rock was the belief that he would be saved by the Almighty.Now, he was holding on to the tallest pole of his place of worship. A helicopter was swirling around picking up stranded people. "It is okay. I'm good. God will take care of me!" he refused the rope that was hurled from the helicopter at his direction.
Unfortunately, no further aid came his way and he perished.
In the after-life, the holy man managed to secure an audience with the Big Guy. He stated his predicament of sacrificing his whole life for the work of the Divine only to be let down at the last moment through an act perceived as the wrath of God. God replied, "I sent a van, an hovercraft and a helicopter. You just refused to budge from your high chair!"
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