A Nor'easter Canceled Festivals From Maryland to Massachusetts — Testing What Our Plans Are Built On
A multi-day nor'easter is expected to bring heavy rain and wind to the East Coast, with more than 33 million people from Virginia to Rhode Island under coastal flood alerts.
You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
Isaiah 26:3— NLTRead Isaiah 26 (NLT)
The News
A multi-day nor'easter is expected to bring heavy rain and wind to the East Coast, with more than 33 million people from Virginia to Rhode Island under coastal flood alerts. Oceans Calling Festival in Ocean City, Maryland, canceled its Friday programming the same day it was set to begin, and Global Citizen Festival in Central Park was canceled for the first time in 14 years.
The IRONMAN 70.3 New York triathlon at Jones Beach, the All Things Go Festival in Forest Hills, and Ed Sheeran's concerts at Gillette Stadium were also canceled. Most ticketholders will receive automatic refunds within 30 days, and food intended for the Global Citizen Festival will be donated to local organizations in New York City.
The Reflection
Consider what was actually undone in a single day's announcement. Athletes had trained for months for a triathlon at Jones Beach. Organizers had booked a year of talent — Dave Matthews Band, Ludacris — and sold tickets to tens of thousands of people. None of that was careless. It was careful, diligent, expensive preparation. And a forecast erased it overnight.
That is the contrast worth sitting with: not between careless people and a careless storm, but between the impressive durability of our preparations and the fragility of the conditions they depend on. The verse makes a claim that sounds almost reckless next to a weekend of canceled plans — perfect peace is possible. But notice where it locates that peace: not in circumstances that hold, but in a trust that holds when circumstances don't. The cancellations were not failures of planning; by every account, organizers acted on safety. The plans were real goods. They were simply never designed to be the ground beneath us.
So here is a practice, not a mood: pick one plan you have invested in — a trip, a project, a season of life — and prepare for it fully this week while loosening your grip on its outcome. The ground that holds is not the kind that issues flood alerts.
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