Did you know that Jesus didn’t make no monsters? My 4 year old told me that a while ago. He had been worried about those monsters so his older sister had explained this to him. And I confirmed this when he told me. Jesus didn’t make any monsters. I’m thinking today of Katrina, of the earthquake in Haiti, of the tornados that come through our state regularly every spring. Most of all, I’m thinking of all those people who call these things God’s judgment. And I’m thinking that they might be wrong. If Jesus didn’t make any monsters, would he really make the monstrous disasters that come to our world so regularly? I doubt it. Maybe that’s an over simplification of a bigger theological study but Jesus did say we had to come to him as a child. I’m not a minister. I’m not a priest. I’m not even a student of theology. And I don’t really have a point to make here. I’m just throwing out a little food for thought. Maybe all those disasters that come to us are just life. And it’s just human nature that, when something goes wrong, we have to have somebody to blame. So we tell people it’s their own fault God had to punish them.

 I think that I prefer the ‘Footprints’ sentiment. When we are the farthest down, when the earthquakes, floods and tornadoes level our homes, destroy our lives and kill out loved ones, it is then that He carries us. May He carry us in our need.