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16/06: My World is a Flood

I am sitting in church Sunday morning, but I am having a difficult time concentrating on the message. I sit there in my brand new father's day shirt with a few hundred people in their Sunday best and I can't help but think about Cedar Rapids.

Before my family moved to Lincoln, we lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. So, it really wasn't surprising my thoughts were on them this Sunday morning. Are my friends safe? What is going on at the church we were part of? How is everyone holding up? How much have they lost?

I can't help but wonder what our lives would be like if we were there? Where would we be if we were still there? Would we be safe? Would we have a home? How much would we have lost? Would I be helping others through my employment at The Salvation Army ?

And I was just complaining about a little water in my basement a couple weeks.

We all face floods in our lives. Jesus told us that it rains on the just and the unjust. Something will happen and our world will fall apart. Someone close to us will die or a financial crisis will come or a natural disaster will hit. You are going to have a flood or two in your life.

Are you ready? Am I ready? Can one ever be ready? Maybe you can't totally prepare, but you can know where to turn when the storm hits, because it will hit.

"Rain, rain on my face
It hasn't stopped raining for days
My world is a flood
Slowly I become one with the mud

But if I can't swim after forty days
And my mind is crushed by the thrashing waves
Lift me up so high that I cannot fall
Lift me up
Lift me up - when I'm falling
Lift me up - I'm weak and I'm dying
Lift me up - I need you to hold me
Lift me up - keep me from drowning again"
(Words by Jars of Clay)

Have a God filled week and say a prayer for Cedar Rapids and the flood victims in Iowa.

Dan Todd
Discipleship and Small Groups
St Marks UMC



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