Today has been very busy, I’ve had to juggle several things.
I helped out a friend this morning which was easy because it just meant
travelling down some pretty country lanes in glorious sunshine, popping to the
village that has a petrol pump or two and then going for coffee at a garden
centre. On our return we watered the
plant pots my friend had planted a couple of weeks ago. In the afternoon I
played indoor bowls for two hours and promised to check arrangements for a match
tomorrow when I got home. This is where
less than perfect came in. I promptly
forgot about the match. I went in to
watch T.V with my friend. We particularly
wanted to view “Tribe” about Ethiopians still living in huts. It is fascinating to see how like us they
are, which does not surprise me, people are people. This programme showed a teenage girl acting
up. The young people there had all got
mobile phones but had to go to town to recharge them. All this fascinating
stuff had kept my mind away from bowls match, but when I came in to my flat
there was a message on my phone and I immediately knew it was reminding me
about the match. Although it was late,
10 o’clock, I rang the other team and found that all was arranged and we could
expect just the right number of people tomorrow. I rang the friend who wanted to know the numbers
but she had obviously gone to bed, so I left a message on her phone for the
morning. I hope I didn’t wake her. So I’m
not perfect, I don’t remember everything, but all turned out well, such is the
goodness of 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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