"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"
Is there a theological perspective that comes from the tragic turn of events with the fire? Are there some things to be learned from this?
When smoke gets in your eyes you realize that we are all in this together. There is no place where the smoke is not and it doesn't matter who you are the smoke has its effect. If you are a professor or a garbage collector or a preacher or a teacher or a mother of five, we are all in this together.
If you are liberal or conservative or friend or foe we are all in this together. Are eyes are hurting because of the smoke but we are all in this together.
The smoke in our eyes opens our eyes to the fact that we are all in this together.
When the smoke clears we are able to see the future coming and tomorrow trying to be born. When the smoke clears we will be able to think about how far we can see and how clean the air is and how lucky we are.
When the smoke clears and when the smoke gets in our eyes there are things for us to learn and understand.
There is nothing wasted in life. There is nothing that comes to us, good or bad, tragic or wonderful, big or small, that doesn't have some sense of the possibility for something to be learned and celebrated.
Our eyes are wide open and there is smoke in our eyes but we are not broken or defeated we are looking at the possibility for something important to happen.
What good is coming out of the fire in the mountains?
What is there to learn from this?
If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to share your thoughts with the readers of the blog click on 'comments' box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
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