I think what happens is that the local news has some time to fill. Their reporters haven't come up with anything good in the local area and they have some time left over. The parent network must collect these stories and they grab a half a dozen to fill in the gap. What we get is the montage of bad news from around the country.
I wish that they would just label it accordingly. When they go to the filler, they could say, "We are out of real news, So now we will fill the next three minutes with bad things that aren't significant in a global sense, but you will find sad and discouraging all the same. Please stand by for an overwhelming sense that the world is falling apart." They probably wouldn't keep too many viewers after that, but at least it would be honest.
The point is this. Listening to the news can leave us with this feeling that the world is falling apart. And even a person of faith can be left thinking that all is hopeless. We wonder why these bad things happen. Some things are simple cause and effect. This person got drunk and climbed behind the wheel of a car. Bad things happen.
But there are others that seem to have no direct cause. No one made a bad choice. There is no one to blame. We are left with this big question mark in the air. We wonder why God would let the child get cancer; or why God would let the people get stuck in a storm; or why hard working people come to financial ruin. We wonder why and the answers are not easy.
This was not the original plan. But God is knocking on the door. He wants us back. Living in the will of God will not prevent the disasters from coming our way. We live in a world where there is plenty of suffering to go around. But God can give us the strength to weather the storms and see our way clear through to the other side,
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