Living in California, I don’t think about earthquakes as much as people might imagine. Yes, the San Andreas Fault is 746 miles long and could be the site of the next “big one,” but it hasn’t produced a major earthquake since 1906.
Given enough distance or time, we can often avoid serious thought about real risk. We forget fractures and fissures are under our feet.
Every healthy institution—family, church, or nation—must be strong enough to acknowledge, bear up under, and do its best to repair its underground fissures. Since Genesis 3, we have contended with “thorns and thistles” (v. 18)
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