We have earthquakes here in Edmond.  For the most part, they are centered north toward Guthrie.  They don't really amount to anything.  When you have lived in California with its constant quakes, you are used to it.  California quakes shake the entire house.  You get your first clue when the chandelier  begins to sway back and forth.  You move under a door frame or go outside if it gets bad.  And then you wait to see what is going to happen.  If it isn't a quake, it's a fire.  We lived in Santa Ana a couple of times, and the fires and winds and the quakes there were always a concern.

After a few quakes, you get complacent.  We lived in California three different times.  Once was on the San Francisco fault across the bay at Hayward.  Edmond quakes don't count compared to that.  There was a whole lot of shaking going on.

Danger has a way of numbing you when it occurs on a regular basis.  You learn to live with it, then you learn to forget about it.  I've gotten that way about tornadoes.  I used to be so very frightened.  Now, I get up and look out the window or go out on the porch if the siren blows.  

Ken said that when you get shot at every day, you finally realize you are a dead man.  Then you just keep on keeping on.  Danger becomes commonplace.  You do what you have to do because you figure you are as good as dead anyway.  Commonplace danger loses its impact.

James put it this way:  James 4: 13-15 "...you that say today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year...whereas you don't know what shall be on the morrow.  For what is your life?  It is even a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.  For you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that."

We are definitely not in control.  Constant fear keeps you from doing what you need to do.  Put it all in the hands of God.  Hebrews 13: 5  "...be content...(with what you have)...for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you."