Everyone's talking bout the weather

Let's see:

Warmer oceans may be causing jellyfish swarms from Japan to Florida, ruining vacations, stinging swimmers, foiling fishermen. Millions of the giant ones.

Tornadoes strike in New England. In NEW ENGLAND. That happens about as often as, well, someone from New England is elected president. Terrible, horrific tornadoes have struck towns and cities in the Midwest and South all too frequently.

Heavy sandstorms are wracking Baghdad.

It was 99 in the New Orleans area yesterday. On June 1. JUNE. It's rained once in the past two months and on that day tornadoes almost carried us all away.

And a French sociologist declared the Smurfs to be racist, which has nothing to do with weather but it simply another sign that the end of the world as we know it is upon us.

Is it the end, or just a weird spring? Well, both. Clearly things have been, uh, unusual this spring. In California, there was a frost in April. Temperatures in the Bay Area were 15-20 degrees below normal in May. The winter across the country was much colder than normal, with record snow falls that are now producing record melted waters. There's a drought going on in the South, even as flood waters are going down. It's not just us, either. April temperatures for central England were the warmest in the entire 353 year record which stretches back to 1659. There has been less than 20% of normal rainfall over large parts of England during both March and April. Soils are now exceptionally dry and river flows very low for this time of year.

Do I have questions? Yep. They're beginning to form.

Do I have answers? Yep. Just one, though.

The Psalmist says: ^"For God is the King of all the earth; sing to him a psalm of praise. God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne."

Do I know why folks are dying from the weather? Do I know what to say when a lifetime is wiped away in 10 minutes? Do I have answers for those who worry about what the weather will do next?

Nah. Nah. Nah.

But I have a friendship with the one who does. That's all trust is, in the long run.