Article November 11, 2019 Issue

The power that remains when the hurricane leaves

Liz Butterfield Wallingford

A version of this article appeared in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column on September 9, 2019.

It’s been heartbreaking to see reports and videos of extreme weather affecting communities around the world in recent months. Such disasters lend themselves to feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and despair.

And yet, those reports also point to something else entirely. Fortitude. Selflessness. Courage. Grace. Compassion.

This is no small thing. These qualities are a sign of something more enduring than ferocious winds and impervious to overpowering floods—a power that brings out the best in us, even in the worst of times.

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