Looking for Solid Ground
Published: May 17, 2010
We’ve all had moments when we’ve wished the ground would open up and swallow us. For one family in Quebec that’s exactly what happened. According to reports on CNN.com a 500 yard sinkhole opened up threatening five homes in the town of Saint-Jude. One home was sucked into the hole and a family of five lost their lives. They were in the basement, just watching a hockey game when the ground beneath them fell away.
Makes you think doesn’t it?
Life is always fatal, but most of us don’t spend a great deal of time thinking about how we’ll die. I remember my Nanny telling a story of flight she and my Granddad were on. They hit really bad turbulence and the plane started to drop. My Nan says she remembers taking hold of my Granddad’s hand and thinking “thank God we’ll die together”. The plane righted itself and that was not the end of the line for my grandparents but I can understand her sentiment. I don’t know if I would be that calm in the face of death.
For all the things that we know in this modern world, most of us will not see death coming. For some there is an illness, or simply old age that lets us know we’re getting close, but no one can tell us just how long we have. I’ve always thought it was a mercy not to know. Others try to find answers anywhere they can.
In her article “Are Truth and Love in the Stars?” Kim Koteles talks about her pursuit of knowledge through the study of astrology and how the answers she found surprised her. She writes:
“I was excited by how often and how accurately it outlined people’s characters and different events. I thought that through astrology I would be a better friend and would gain people’s love because of it. After four years of study I saw that my belief in astrology would amuse people, but that they would rarely take it or me seriously.”
Read her article to see if she found the answers she was looking for.
Do you think life is random or is purpose to both the pleasure and pain of life? Where do you look for answers?
