What's In a Tenth Anniversary?

So now, after the earthquake, we're gearing up for Hurricane Irene. . . supposed to hit the coast of CT south of us about 50 miles. Earthquakes and hurricanes. . .hmmmm, sounds like what Elijah encountered in his cave refuge [I Kings 19]. Surprising, isn't it, that we aren't hearing more from fundamentalist evangelists proclaiming "the voice of the Lord is speaking to us his condemnation, etc., etc., etc." It's always impressive to me that Elijah doesn't recognize the voice of the divine presence in the terrifying cataclysmic forces of nature's wrath. He covers his face with his cloak only after the mysterious and ultimately ungraspable "light silent sound," goes out of his cave and, only then hears the question, "Why are you here?" Our theophanies may well be coming when we forsake the cave of our false security and listen in the stillness. . . if we but notice.