Article April 22, 1996 Issue

God controls our environment

Rosalie E. Dunbar

During the disaster at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, my parents were living within the fifty-mile radius that some news reports said was the "danger zone." Unable to help with the physical work of solving the problems at the plant, we all prayed, each in his or her own way. God was the one power we felt we could turn to at a time like that.

There were plenty of other people praying—including, no doubt, employees who were working to control the accident. To everyone's great joy, this was accomplished.

In the years since then, citizens around the world have continued to face dangers from improperly stored chemical wastes, the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the former Soviet Union, oil tanker spills such as the one that occurred in February along the coast of Wales, and similar hazards. These conditions deserve our prayers—whether they are merely something we read about in the newspaper or, as my parents and I discovered, something happening "next door."

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