Do you ever wish you were rich and famous. I used to have a vain dream that I would be a
concert violinist!! I do play the violin
but not really well. I used to teach it
to recalcitrant children, some of whom were pushed into it by their doting
parents. If I really look at the life of
a concert violinist I realize I would not have been happy. There is the constant practice and the
travelling to different venues. It would
tend to wreck family life. There would be the continual pressure to play to a
high standard. To succeed you would have to make a god of your music and where
would that leave room for the one true God.
No, I am glad I have been a mediocre violinist and gradually over the
years I have learnt to put God first though there is still room for me to
improve in this. Beware of having an obsession in your life which keeps you
away from God.
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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