It's Monday,

Monday, September 30, 2024.

I'm Albert Moler and this is the briefing.

A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

In the scale of the created Cosmos, we are very small.

It certainly feels that way when you stand at a place like the Grand Canyon

and recognize just how immense it is, how small a mere human

being is. When it comes to storms, a hurricane may be the most powerful phenomenon that makes

us feel so small. And it makes us feel so small.

And it makes us feel so small in so many different ways.

First of all, it makes us feel small just given the immensity

of any storm that ranks as a hurricane,

or a tropical cyclone. We're talking about 70 miles an hour of sustained

winds. We are talking about a storm of immense size. We're talking about something that generally

begins as a form of depression, but then turns rather rapidly in some cases into a very powerful storm.

That's what happened with Hurricane Helene.

It emerged as a weather depression in the Gulf,

and then within a matter of just a few days,

it was a category four hurricane.

And when I say a few days in some of the most crucial periods of the storm, it was just a matter of hours.

But a hurricane also makes us feel so small when we look at the devastation that it leaves.

It's honestly still hard for me growing up as a boy even in Florida and

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