Blinded by Rage

Psalm 135:13 (NIV)
Your name, O Lord, endures forever, your renown, O Lord, through all generations.

The sun shone brightly in the clear morning sky.

People were already at work perhaps thinking of their next deadline... perhaps thinking of the weekend... perhaps just thinking.

The morning calm was suddenly disturbed by the sound of a plane flying much lower than usual.

Some people looked out of their office windows and watched with curiosity as the plane drew ever nearer.

"That's odd," a few must have thought.

That thought faded quickly when they realized the plane was headed straight for their building.

Impact.

This wasn't New York in September 2001.

This was Austin, Texas in February 2010. A place where things like this were just not supposed to happen. But it did happen.

A man, angry with the agency that had offices in this building flew his private plane into it, killing himself and one individual working inside.

The access road in front of the building was closed for days.

The view from the highway was appalling.

This once pristine steel and glass office building now bore the scars of one man's rage.

The broken glass.

The smoke stains from the flames.

Now, the access road is open to both those that need it to get where they are going and those who are merely curious and want to see it up close.

If you look carefully enough, you will see one more thing.

Nearby is a church which appears to have sustained absolutely no damage from the incident.

The office building has been deemed to be structurally sound.

Eventually, it will either be repaired or perhaps even replaced.

One structure now stands as a temporary memorial to one man's rage.

The other stands as a far more permanent memorial to God's love and how He expressed that love to us through His only Son, Jesus Christ.

God Bless You,
The Other Brother Jim


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