I used to get quite a lot of depression when I was younger. One day I learnt an important lesson. I was desperately trying to pray and then felt I could not pray anymore. I just said one more prayer, " O Lord I can't hold on to You any longer. Please hold on to me." That is about the best prayer any of us can pray. It is so important to realize that we can do nothing for ourselves. All our best efforts fail. We just need that cry for help which says, "Please hold on to me Lord Jesus."
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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