More Turbulence Ahead

Most of us who have traveled by air, have had that feeling in the pit of the stomach when the disembodied voice of the pilot comes over the speaker system to announce the warning that the craft is about to enter turbulence, followed by the precise instructions of flight attendants to stow what you are holding, secure your trays, and put on your seat belts, said quickly but in such a way as to be comforting (or at least, not to provoke additional alarm and on board distress). A Continental flight today experienced the kind of dire turbulence we all pray to avoid when we take off on an airplane. In my own experience, once on a return leg of a journey back to my hometown of Nashville, our commercial airliner was ravaged by some significant quaking-so much so that overhead bins opened, and service carts went flying. My cabin mates were invoking the deity or shouting profanities, but the Uncaused First Cause had His steadying hand on the ultimate control and we landed safely. Every individual experiences storms in their life, every nation, the world's economy- all face turbulence from time to time. That is when we must look past our elected officials to One who charts a higher course in piloting events. No matter how much power an official believes he has, what he has the ability to affect is infinitesimally small compared to the real power that created all of us.