Facing the Other Set of Facts

Is Anything Stable?
Psalm 89: 1-37

My wife once lived in a house on the side of a canyon in California that seemed capable of tumbling into the ocean if there was an earthquake, and after one worrying quake not far away she took to checking the weekly earthquake reports. Apparently California has five hundred earthquakes a week; almost all of them are undetectable on the surface. She half agreed that checking on what was going on was a bit pointless because it could not reveal what might happen in the future. But (she pointed out) if there are lots of little earthquakes, it is good news because it is a sign that the tensions in the earth are finding expression. It is when there is no shifting of the earth and tension builds up that there is danger of a serious quake. Me, I am more freaked out by the signs that have sprouted by the ocean announcing that you are entering a tsunami hazard zone and/or that give you implausible instructions about which direction to run in the event of a tsunami...