Spiritual Reflections
An Earthquake Frees Us from our Worldly Prison
Reading 1: About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God as the prisoners listened, there was suddenly such a severe earthquake that the foundations of the jail shook; all the doors flew open, and the chains of all were pulled loose. (Sixth Tuesday of Easter Season – Acts of the Apostles 16: 25-26)
Another flight, another airplane: such a miracle!
Today, I boarded an American Airline plane in San Francisco for the cross-country flight to Indianapolis – and in spite of the hundreds of times that I’ve flown on a plane, I felt again that special thrill when I stepped toward the airplane door, glancing down at that crack of space opening up below my legs, between the edge of the fuselage and the movable entrance ramp, a crack that will become 35,000 feet deep when we are airborne.