An Amazing Thought

I have just gotten that much cooler; not only do I live in Japan but I have now lived through an earthquake.
It started off as a normal day, teaching, planning, waiting for classes to begin, eating a few times, but it's now a day I don't think I'll forget for a while. My classes had just finished for the day and I was absolutely starving (having mostly salad for two meals in a day does that to you...) so I started rooting through my candy stash I keep in Kaila's room trying to find something to satisfy my belly. Then Kaila brought up the option of making baked apples that I voted for. We were just sitting on her bed finishing them up when one wall started shaking, then two, then the whole building. At first maybe I thought just a loud truck was driving by, but I soon realized I was sitting in a natural disaster. Kaila and I clutched onto each other, our eyes wide; if my face looked anything like her face I probably looked pretty scared. And then all at once it was over.
It is a weird feeling to suddenly realize everything you've thought was stable suddenly isn't; stability is something I think we all take for granted. It's easy to get lost in our own worlds, thinking we're in control, but that's really not the case; we live in a world that has a Sovereign God, and when he reaches his hand down into our world and exercises his power through things like earthquakes it makes you feel really small. And this God who controls every earthquake, who sees everything in the world and holds the universe in His hands knows me, little me, and loves me with everything He is.
That is simply an amazing thought.