"Master, master, Japan is going to drown"

I heard the news about Japan today. Why is it that I always underestimate God's power. The first thing I thought was "how do you save an island from a tsunami? that's like a boat out in a storm. it's doomed." haha and you can hear God telling me "oh, yi of little faith." a boat in a storm? sound familiar? when the disciples were on the boat with Jesus in the middle of a storm, freaking out, Jesus calmed the storm instantly. INSTANTLY. I honestly don't know how this tragedy plays a role in his plan for these people, but he knows the big picture and I believe that he knows what he's doing. If anything he would want the best for his children and this is just another obstacle to face getting there. I believe that he will provide help and support. I also pray that they may experience his comfort and peace.

God was the first psychologist, not Freud

I'm currently learning about prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination in my psych class and i just read about ingroup bias. Ingroup bias is defined in my textbook as the tendency to give more favorable evaluations and greater rewards to ingroup members than to outgroup members. Ingroup members being other people you relate to. Common sense right? We all have social groups, friends, family who we most relate ourselves to.. our INgroup. According to the ingroup bias, we tend to forget our fellow ingroup members' bad behaviors and remember their good behaviors. Wouldn't it be great if everyone was in the INgroup. No prejudice, no discrimination. I believe that's how God wants us to think of everyone. There's a reason he stated that we're all his children. ALL his children. Doesn't that put us ALL in the ingroup? Thinking that way changes our mindset, the way we view the world, view other people. We start thinking of "them" as "us". We start to forget their bad behaviors.. and remember their good..

I was kind of afraid that when I came to college and I would learn things that would contradict the bible and it would lead me away and make me start to doubt God. Now, I'm finding that the more I learn, the more I realize how amazing God is and how smart he is haha.