Yes, a "CLEAR" reference to that CCR song.
Pulling from the recesses of my memory, I remember this event...
About 9 years ago I was in the motherland visiting 媽媽的爸爸和媽媽的媽媽. It just so happened to be hurricane season and we were hit with this long bout of rain. This rain was ridonk. Given this part of the country does sit on a tropic, so it was expected, but I'd never seen THIS much rain.
There was so much that it flooded the whole first floor of their house. I remember me and 婆婆 were trapped in it and couldn't do anything about it but wait for it to go into the drains. To pass the time, we played mahjong. It was beautiful. I tell you this story to tell you this one...
Just yesterday it rained so much it flooded a good chunk of the 757. Thunderstorms too. I heard one story of how lightning struck a church, tearing off some pieces of the building spilling it onto the streets below.
The old school, fire and brimstone oldster in me thought...what did that congregation do??? At the same time I was reminded of the planks in my eye.
Could it be that natural disasters are a way of Him admonishing us? Yes, I know this sounds SOOO fire and brimstonish, but humor me on this. Just another reminder of His presence in whatever form it maybe and that of the evanescence of it all.
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