The parable of the vineyard workers. Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Maria. The earthquake in Mexico City. What … if anything … might these have in common? Last Sunday I asked you … the congregation … to tell me about where and how you found God in the midst of a hurricane and its aftermath. We heard stories of acts of kindness and compassion between friends … and amongst strangers. We heard about seeing the other … no matter how different … as being in the same boat and being a fellow child of God. But what I didn’t hear were the questions … Why did one person get flooded out and not another? What about all the devastation in the Caribbean islands where poverty is rampant and infrastructure is weak? What about the 10 persons who died in a nursing home in south Florida? What about the feeling of despair that is overwhelming some people … some of my friends and neighbors? And now we can add all the questions about the earthquake.
