The sign, above, will be the only good thing about driving North, this morning.
As hubby and I pack up our bags, and begin the treck out of the tsunami zone my heart will ache.
For about eight years we have been coming to Cannon Beach, Oregon. Most of those trips have been made with at least the younger two of our three kids. We stay at a conference center (www.cbcc.net) where you get fed in every way … as you walk the beach, as they provide two amazing meals each day, as you breathe the salty ocean air, as you have time to reconnect with your loved ones, as you listen to amazing speakers, as you share worship with other Christ-followers, as they provide entertainment and socializing opportunities.
The only negative of the experience is that, while being fed so well, and in so many ways, is that the time here is spent in a Tsunami zone.
According to Geo-scientists, the west coast, roughly from California to Alaska, is overdue for a Megathrust earthquake, which will trigger a Tsunami unlike any other this Earth has yet experienced. This scientific teaching comes to my memory as soon as I see the first sign that declares:
“you are entering a tsunami zone”
As I viewed one of those signs, as we were entering what I like to refer to as eutopia, I found myself thinking,
“why would any person, who knows about the possibility of impending doom, enter into a tsunami zone?”
Then I thought of other risks of impending doom that we drive into, throughout our life:
- Marriage
- Raising children
- Moving to a new town
- Changing careers
- Starting a new business
Each one of the choices above can be doors that lead us to tragic ends, yet we humans keep driving into various tsunami zones in our life. Areas that could be the end of us, destroy us.
But, like the possible threat of a Megathrust earthquake and resulting tsunami, the risks associated with major life choices are not guaranteed, but possible. Like the benefit of being fed, and nurtured, and made better by being in a beautiful coastal town, the most major, of major life choices, can also satiate, nurture and make us better.
If we never enter into the tsunami zone, we will never Know the joys of the risk.
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