when all else is swept away by life's tsunami

Oceans somehow makes us think of others like a world away, as if in our own galaxy and I'm like a detached alien watching.
 
And television or Internet news assails us with images and we can hardly comprehend devastation's wreaked a whole nation away.

This weekend, we watched black sludge eerily move across and devour towns, highways, and we barely realize or believe how death is swallowing up it's path. Where boats awkwardly ride on strange waves which carries them inland to places never before, floating with houses, cars, and cities. 
 
The land is ripped from it's surface in a world turned upside down. I imagine being on the shore of Japan and watching incredulously as a black wave rolls in as far as the eye could see. Or walk destroyed streets like a blind person because I don't recognize one thing about it. Or speeding in a car from disappearing highways and what do you say in a race against the tide? 
 
In all of earth where is the safe harbor which shelters us from destruction? 
 
Is there a firm foundation which withstands the sweeping arm of life's tsunami? Where is the strong rock which stands up under shaken pillars? When we become a piece of the scattered and broken around us, how do we put it back together?

And sometimes our breathing is hard and tainted in our own wordly meltdowns.
 
Of all things, we need to know this kind of foundation, that although our life is swept out to sea, anything built on this Rock still stands: 

"He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock." Luke 6:48

This is the Cornerstone, which keeps us solid when the earth shakes and trembles and seas bellow death. Of all that taints and chases us down and the world crumbles around us, this foundation never does.

When all else fails and the earth turns inside out, we have a Comforter who not only saves but rebuilds on the only foundation no disaster can sweep away.


Joining Ann with gratitude:

--there's a Person who seeks the lost, the wounded, and is near the broken hearted
--Hope. We have a surpassing hope which is able to redeem all that's lost.
--technology which reveals things we wouldn't otherwise know or have seen and how it makes it all real in the heart
--prayer for a people we know nothing of but we know He does