the calamities of life

A calamity is defined as an event that causes a great and often sudden damage or distress.  A calamity is a disaster, a calamity is a tragedy, a calamity is a bad thing.   

There are many calamities reported in the news.  Resent train derailments in Ohio, Florida, West Virginia, Michigan, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Alabama is a calamity. 

The kidnapping and murder of our  brothers and sisters in Mexico is a calamity.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a calamity.  

The civil war in Ethiopia where since 2018 Fighting there has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions more in Africa’s second-most-populous country, is a calamity.  

But can a calamity be a calamity if it’s never reported?

Dr. Marvin Dunn is an emeritus professor at Florida International University.  He is the author of the book A History of Florida Through Black Eyes.    In explaining the purpose for the book, he writes: (quote) “ Blacks were left out or minimized in most accounts of Florida history because to have included our real story would have meant telling the embarrassing, horrific, bloody truth about the underbelly of Florida and the brutal bigots who controlled the state for so long. It would also have meant telling the stories of black heroes and heroines who resisted The Beast of oppression with words and sometimes with arms.” (end quote) 

In other words, to tell the story of Florida the racial calamities must be told as well. 

From Genesis to Revelations, the Bible tells the calamities that befall people within the pages of it’s holy text.  These calamities faced by Adam, Eve, David, Ruth, and Bathsheba are the same ones we face today

Greed, Lying, Stealing, Murder, Adultery along with unfaithfulness to God and His teachings.   

However, it is God’s telling of these calamities available to be read, to be taught, and to be shared by all regardless of age or station of life that have sparked the faith of many.  For it in knowing about our calamities and not passing laws in the name of “anti-wokeness” to keep us from knowing the unpleasantness of our history brings to us true opportunities for growth along with the avoidance of future calamities.    

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