SENTINEL WATCH October 9, 2006 Issue

ALWAYS, WE CAN THINK CLEARLY

DAVE HOHLE

The range and frequency of news coverage today provides a stream of updates and discussion on issues for which answers are not always obvious. In fact, some issues seem so large and complex they almost defy resolution.

But even events that seem outside our control are in fact never beyond the reach of our conscious thought — and therefore they are not beyond our ability to influence them positively. We can always choose to think clearly, wherever we are. A friend once said, "If you have time to think about it, you have time to think rightly about it."

Recently, I heard reports of two airline crashes in one week — a large passenger plane that went down in Russia and a regional jet that failed in its takeoff from an airport in Kentucky. While statistically infrequent, the loss of life and destruction involved in a downed airliner seem particularly violent and unthinkable. But these two events reminded me that even in the face of such disasters, we are never without access to clear, healing ideas.