So yesterday (Tuesday), our daughter was trying to get back from a vacation in New York City and found herself stuck in an aircraft waiting to get out of LaGuardia Airport.
It's frustrating. Frustrating for her, stuck in a plane. Frustrating for her roommate who is supposed to pick her up at the Little Rock Airport later tonight. Frustrating for her parents who want her home where she will, allegedly, be safer and sounder.
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| As I write, she's here. |
And the thing is, we have more information about such things now than we have had for years before. I can pull up a picture of where the plane is waiting, I can find weather radar information, I can even access history of how quick the flight usually takes. (Note: it's usually quicker than the allotted time, by at least half-an-hour!)
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| Anticipated routing. |
You know what I cannot do?
Change the weather. Or adjust the basic reality of life that taking off in an Airbus 321 in the middle of a thunderstorm line is just a bad idea.
We like to say that knowledge is power, but ultimately, no matter how knowledgeable we are, we remain powerless in the face of many things.
Now, eventually, all such things can be considered "first world problems" and we should just get over them. I would suggest that, instead, we should see these as the same basic human problems as ever:
No matter how much we know, we have limits. Limits that we cannot exceed or change.
The real challenge is living within them and giving others space to live inside theirs. That takes grace. We need to have enough for us, which God gives, so that we have plenty to pass on to others until they know God's grace fully.
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