Anatomy of a tragedy

in october of 2007, wildfires around san diego consumed over 500,000 acres of land, causing multiple injuries and seven deaths.  over 2,700 homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed and over 500,000 people were evacuated from the area during the largest evacuation in california history.

today, i found another casualty.  the church camp that i grew up going to was burned down in the fire.  i never knew.

wanda and i drove up to it today to see the damage first hand and there was locked gate at the bottom of the hill.  in all the years i spent going to featherstone camp, i have never seen that gate locked.  it was sad.  it was surreal.

it was a reminder, in the midst of a wonderful vacation, that tragedy and sadness and unpredictability and darkness loom around us all the time.

are you ready to face it when it comes?  because it will.are you ready to face death and loss and separation and failure when it rolls into town?  because it will.do you have a worldview that provides a deep and wide perspective?do you have a faith that you didn’t make up in your own mind?do you have more than an existentialist outlook or a fatalistic philosophy?do you have more than a humanistic resolve to get through it “as best you can”?do you live with more than karma…more than a crap shoot…more than “suck it up”…more than “all things pass”?

you need more than this.  because it will come.

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