Ecstasy to Agony
February 13, 2009
Like so many others I rejoiced and celebrated the “Miracle on the Hudson”. US Airways Flight 1549’s safe landing on the Hudson River: The Ecstasy. Today I mourn The Agony: Continental Airlines Flight 3407. Two stories two very different outcomes. Both stories involved doing ordinary things on ordinary days and yet, in both cases, the extraordinary happened: Ecstasy to Agony.
Isn’t that what life is made of, just a series of one or the other? Don’t get me wrong I’m not so manic that I believe it’s only one or the other, but I do believe that it is degrees of both. Good verses evil, just or unjust, righteous or unrighteous, victory or defeat, but what is so confusing to me, it may depend on the set of eyes looking at the situation that decides which is which, although in cases such as the airlines, the decision is easy. But I dare say few are this easy.
I am a Bible believing Christian and I have been promised, in scripture, that I will have trials and tribulations. Yeah God! Today my heart breaks for the families and loved ones of Flight 3407. I’m sure as they went about their day they never dreamed this would happen, but it did. Now many are facing the greatest trials and tribulations of their lives and I weep with them. But according to the Gospel (which means Good News) I am also promised “the peace that passes all understanding”. My prayer is that as they look for the peace, they find the one through whom it passes.
As I was typing this I started my iTunes and just let it play randomly. The song playing under this was Amazing Grace, perhaps one of the best songs ever written. The second verse says, “Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved, how precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed.” May His grace bring you peace. Amen.
February 13, 2009
Like so many others I rejoiced and celebrated the “Miracle on the Hudson”. US Airways Flight 1549’s safe landing on the Hudson River: The Ecstasy. Today I mourn The Agony: Continental Airlines Flight 3407. Two stories two very different outcomes. Both stories involved doing ordinary things on ordinary days and yet, in both cases, the extraordinary happened: Ecstasy to Agony.
Isn’t that what life is made of, just a series of one or the other? Don’t get me wrong I’m not so manic that I believe it’s only one or the other, but I do believe that it is degrees of both. Good verses evil, just or unjust, righteous or unrighteous, victory or defeat, but what is so confusing to me, it may depend on the set of eyes looking at the situation that decides which is which, although in cases such as the airlines, the decision is easy. But I dare say few are this easy.
I am a Bible believing Christian and I have been promised, in scripture, that I will have trials and tribulations. Yeah God! Today my heart breaks for the families and loved ones of Flight 3407. I’m sure as they went about their day they never dreamed this would happen, but it did. Now many are facing the greatest trials and tribulations of their lives and I weep with them. But according to the Gospel (which means Good News) I am also promised “the peace that passes all understanding”. My prayer is that as they look for the peace, they find the one through whom it passes.
As I was typing this I started my iTunes and just let it play randomly. The song playing under this was Amazing Grace, perhaps one of the best songs ever written. The second verse says, “Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved, how precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed.” May His grace bring you peace. Amen.
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