Even when his drug addiction caused this man immense pain and suffering, the thought that God never sees His children as flawed or beyond hope was enough to bring him the freedom he yearned for.
Guilt and condemnation are not the agents of reform for people who battle self-destructive, compulsive behavior. It's the ability to love as Jesus taught that leads to true and permanent healing.
The verdict had been handed down: "Your father was an alcoholic, and you'll be one, too." But through the author's own communication with God, the verdict was reversed.
"It's gone,"
said a senior US official in one of the first formal statements to the news media about the Columbia space shuttle, which broke up over Texas just 16 minutes before its scheduled touchdown on Saturday morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
What's important now for the space program—and in any situation where endeavors have been aborted by tragedy—is to learn the lessons that will make future efforts more safely successful.
