With the movie, "Left Behind," and the emphasis on how airline disasters will herald the return of Christ when God's people are rescued "taken-up" into a spiritual sanctuary, this is what two airline disasters that have haunted me for decades finally mean. I know it's not current news, so it is a bit of a stretch, but, I mentioned two airline disasters from decades ago, the Alaska Air flight 261, in the 90's, and the horror of it's desperate plunge into the ocean off the cost of California after it leveled out briefly inverted, while a pastor's wife made a final altar call,
and the anguished last flight of Air Florida in the early 1980's.
I hope you will take a moment to weep with me over these two horrible airline tragedies in their remembrance here...
What brought this up again in my attention, was a dream the other night about being on-board Alaska Air flight 261 in the final dive after the altar-call crying out to the LORD--
and then yesterday as I worked in my car delivering pizza's temporarily between jobs.
They say that driving in traffic--combat driving-- is the closest thing people can do to flying a fighter jet on the ground. Since I always wanted to be a pilot, although that is not a calling I have a passion, or ability to pursue at this stage of my life, sometimes in traffic when I'm in a good mood, when the light turns green, or I turn onto a freeway/street, it can look like sitting on the end of a runway beginning a take-off roll, and sometimes I will say,
"Kia 258, cleared for take-off on runway 25 right," or whatever direction I'm headed, (not actual number) to make the job more immediate and real, especially in an aviation-oriented community with several airports around and planes, small planes, commuter planes, military planes of all kinds, including fighter jets, flying around on any given day.
This once again brought back the memory of Air Florida.
Almost without fail, when I remember this air tragedy, I recall the final words of the pilots and begin to weep, because it was so real to many people witnessing it in the news.
The co-pilot flying the plane saying, "it's cold...so cold..."
and then "we're going down,"
and the captain saying,
"I know it."
I broke down in tears driving my car, and was thinking that, "I need counseling for a crash that's not even my own."
but, there is a deeper meaning here of a plane going down...
the LORD revealed to me...
[please take a moment to meditate on our troubled world]
I believed I sensed the LORD saying to me:
[please weep with me for our world]
The LORD said:
"it's ok to weep for fallen humanity."
and the anguished last flight of Air Florida in the early 1980's.
I hope you will take a moment to weep with me over these two horrible airline tragedies in their remembrance here...
What brought this up again in my attention, was a dream the other night about being on-board Alaska Air flight 261 in the final dive after the altar-call crying out to the LORD--
and then yesterday as I worked in my car delivering pizza's temporarily between jobs.
They say that driving in traffic--combat driving-- is the closest thing people can do to flying a fighter jet on the ground. Since I always wanted to be a pilot, although that is not a calling I have a passion, or ability to pursue at this stage of my life, sometimes in traffic when I'm in a good mood, when the light turns green, or I turn onto a freeway/street, it can look like sitting on the end of a runway beginning a take-off roll, and sometimes I will say,
"Kia 258, cleared for take-off on runway 25 right," or whatever direction I'm headed, (not actual number) to make the job more immediate and real, especially in an aviation-oriented community with several airports around and planes, small planes, commuter planes, military planes of all kinds, including fighter jets, flying around on any given day.
This once again brought back the memory of Air Florida.
Almost without fail, when I remember this air tragedy, I recall the final words of the pilots and begin to weep, because it was so real to many people witnessing it in the news.
The co-pilot flying the plane saying, "it's cold...so cold..."
and then "we're going down,"
and the captain saying,
"I know it."
I broke down in tears driving my car, and was thinking that, "I need counseling for a crash that's not even my own."
but, there is a deeper meaning here of a plane going down...
the LORD revealed to me...
[please take a moment to meditate on our troubled world]
I believed I sensed the LORD saying to me:
[please weep with me for our world]
The LORD said:
"it's ok to weep for fallen humanity."