I have noticed year after year that June in England is often wet and cold, but somehow other people have not cottoned on to this, so they invariably say,"It's not much like June,is it?" I say, "Well yes, it is actually." They find me strange.I must ask my friend from the Met Office to find me some statistics for June over the last few years, see if I can proove my point. It's true to say that we often expect things to be how we think they should be when, in fact, the evidence is all against it. We expect Christmas to be blissfully happy when in fact, many families end up having a row because too much is expected of the occasion.We have a tendency to expect too much of this life altogether. It is a learning ground, a time to test things, a time to find a way that works. Jesus said he had come so that we could have life to the full, but he didn't mean things would be easy. The way was not easy for him and it is not for his followers.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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