I may not know many of you and so I'm not sure if my choice of discussion will really even be relevant, but I didn't really feel like getting into discussion about if we should morally choose to buy Christmas presents over helping to feed a starving child in Namibia or help give clean drinking water to the poor in India.
The two terms I use above are adjectives often used to describe weather systems that bring storms. During the storm season of 2007 in Arkansas, I was completely intrigued with the weather systems that came through this state.
I'll preface this by saying that I've always been a weather geek. When I was in my early elementary school days, I would grab the news papers in our house and flip straight to the weather sections to see what I could expect outside. It wasn't until my parents broke it to me that meteorologist were being replaced by computers that I decided on a degree in IT.
I had never before seen what happened in 2007 and it definitely led me to some questions and potentially a revelation. Weather systems generally move from West to East in America, however that year, they didn't seem to move at all. Storms would pop-up across the region, and then they would kinda stay stationary until phasing out to nothing again. There weren't very many major frontal boundaries, just one big "unstable atmosphere" for many month's it seemed.
I was completely dumbfounded at why there was no movement to so many of these storms.
What I came to make of it that has completely changed my perspective on the weather is that God noticed that there were area's of the Earth that had too much water and some that didn't have enough and so He decided it was time to take one season out of the year and even up the score in a few places.
To imagine that God has such specific control over where rain drops fall really shook my paradigm that the rain just falls wherever it wants to.
So here's the relevance to my pondering: How does this weather theory(or theology) explain extreme floods and droughts? Can we admit to believing that God has such specific control over the weather even when the human devastation is so broad?
If this topic is too weird to discuss, feel free to talk about the difference between being Broke vs being Poor.
