How many times do we hear this statement when a terrible event has taken place? The father of one of those lost in the airplane tragedy in the French Alps earlier this week used these very words. Whilst it is very important for airlines to put in place measures to minimize such events, it is in fact not possible to cover every eventuality. We live in a fallen world where we are all effected by sin at work in our lives. We have inherited from Adam and Eve sin, which pervades our lives even though we try to present a moral life to the outside world. Now and again someone who has the lives of others in their hands cracks and behaves in a sinful manner. What is amazing is that it does not happen more often. This is God's grace to us, His undeserved favour.
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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