Last week I pulled up the drawbridge and went into hibernation. Everything was just too much for me. I'm not proud of this reaction to problems but it seems to work for me. After a week of not knowing why I was doing this, sleeping more or less night and day, I faced up to my problems. Someone suggested coffee might help, I had a cup and started to perk up. I was brought up not to make a fuss and this leads me to saying everything is fine when it is not. Now that I've come out of the womb again I can kick myself into shape and face the world. After all my problems are minute compared with those of others. "Where was your faith?" I hear you say and you may get a handbag across your head for saying it. When did faith ever make life easy. Faith causes you to face battles when you least want to. Faith is tough to exercise and sometimes the battle is fierce and you need a ditch to lie in to recover. So look at your own faith before you question mine. Maybe you will join me in a welcome ditch sometime.
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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