Trinity Sunday (Romans 5:1-5)  5/26/2013

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Not long after moving to the Chicago area, I was driving home from work and noticed the sky had become an angry looking color of green and purple. Growing up in Connecticut, this was a sky I was not familiar with at all. The dark clouds twisted and tumbled and there were a few rolling sections that seemed to be just waiting to reach toward the earth. As I neared my house the sirens began to wail, warning everyone to get inside and take cover. I found my family in the basement, which is where we all spent the next several minutes until the next series of sirens gave the signal that the danger had passed. As a native New Englander, the memories of that day remain with me; and those memories were in mind this past week as I watched the devastating impact of the powerful tornado that made its way through Oklahoma. Filled with Western spirit and resolve, the people of Oklahoma have already begun the hard work of putting their communities back together, but the frightening moments of that day and the challenges that lay ahead cannot be minimized; and we might wonder, where was God in all of this? Continue reading →