Soros on Storms

It was encouraging today to hear George Soros, he of a few pence, reminding us that those who will suffer most from the current economic storm are not those who started the storm, but rather the poorest occupants of our planet who don't even know what a sub-prime mortgage or a government bond might be. It reminded me of the butterfly which is supposed to flap its wings in Malaysia and cause a hurrican in Mexico. As world leaders go into their G20 meetings this week Soros' reminder of who bears the brunt of a global economic storm is well timed. Bob, a friend of mine prompted a similar thought in my mind as we looked at Mark 4:35-41 together this afternoon. I must have read that story of Jesus ending the storm (a real one, not an economic one) a hundred times before but I never noticed before that "there were also other boats with him". Bob's thought was, "What did the people in the other boats think when the storm suddenly finished?" Sometimes God (in Jesus in this case) works unknown in our world. The question I am wrestling with now is, "what will it take for God to finish our economic storm so as to bring relief to the frighted people in the 'other boats' - the poor and powerless of our world?"