The tears of God

The Boston bomb explosions, the man sending poison to the President, the explosion in Texas, the House of Horrors in Philadelphia. Ann Voskamp writes that it is enough

to turn off that blaring TV and those nattering talking heads, rip out the power lines to the news and the streams of headlines flashing callous, get numbed and shut down and eat another big square of chocolate with your fingers slid through someone’s, wait till Somebody stops the madness, stops the chaos, and just brings spring.

And, that is what has happened on her farm in Canada, as an ice storm has just turned everything off:

Ice swathes every blade of greening grass. The clothespins are entombed shut. Kids hold up tree buds mummified in glass. The world seems upended, disoriented, wrong.

However, she notes that

When it’s hard to keep your footing is right when you have to keep your faith.

When everything seems to be falling, Ann reminds us that

You’ve got to reach for the only Hope.

In the midst of the pelting and the exploding and all this breaking, we grab hold of the One Tree, the Tree on which He hung, and we hold on to Him with all we have, those beams stretched wide open to catch us.

There’s nothing else to hold on to but God.

Ann has numerous photos of the ice storm, and concludes with

And through the washing tears of the world, we see and taste the tears of God.

Read and see more here: http://www.aholyexperience.com/2013/04/3-things-to-hold-on-to-in-a-world-falling-apart/