Posted by
peripheral on Friday, July 02, 2010 7:11:44 AM
From My Perspective - - -
Maggots made the news this week when a US Airways plane in Atlanta
returned to the passenger gate. It resulted because of a level of panic
and fear – maggot mania - when maggots started to fall from an overhead
bin onto the passengers. The Flight Attendants urged everyone to remain
in their seats and to be calm. One passenger commented: "I felt like
they were crawling all over me because it only takes one maggot to
upset your world…And as they're telling us to stay calm and seated, I
see a maggot looking back at me and I'm thinking: These are anaerobic,
flesh-eating larvae that the flight attendants don't have to sit with.”
The word “anaerobic” means: “(of an organism or tissue) living in the
absence of air or free oxygen…” The gist of the story is: “Maggots
falling from an overhead bin from a spoiled container of meat forced a
US Airways flight to return to the gate in Atlanta so the bin could be
cleaned. A Passenger said she noticed a couple of flies on the Monday
flight when she got to her seat but didn't think much of it. Then, as
the plane was taxiing, she heard a passenger behind her causing a
commotion and refusing to take her seat. Then I heard the word ‘maggot'
and that kind of got everybody ‘creeped out’…All of a sudden, I felt
somebody flick the back of my hair and on the front of me came a
maggot, which I flicked off me. A passenger had a container of rancid
meat in a carry-on bag and brought it on Monday's flight bound for
Charlotte, N.C.” A Headline could have been: “An Anaerobic Caused A
Degree Of Aerobic Movement.”
Another form of “maggot-mania” is the Labeling that is done in our
society. For some strange reason, the words “Nazi” and “Nazism” are
used by one political party against those who are opposed to them and
their legislative proposals. By the same token, those who are labeled
“Nazi” in turn label those with opposing views as being “Marxist”,
“Progressives”, and “Socialists”! The Maggots that brought about the
delayed flight in Atlanta and caused it later to be taken out of
service so it could be completely fumigated have a similarity to the
Labels Politicians use about each other as they endeavor to retain
power. The politicians need to be returned to the passenger gate and
either be (a) totally fumigated, or (b) taken out of service. Its time
that the mantra of the citizenry should be: E-I-E – Enough Is Enough!
If left unattended, the Maggots and Labelers will gnaw away at the
substance and fabric of who we are.
Those who are struggling to survive and those see no light at the end
of their tunnel are further exasperated by those who govern and who
seem to be out of touch with the real world. Those who present the
talking points that the Stimulus Plan is working and that jobs have
been saved and created are out of touch with those are part of the 10%
unemployed and who have lost their homes through foreclosure. Those who
tell you that the Banks have money for investment are out of touch with
those who have tried to secure a loan to purchase some real property
and have been refused – even though their credit score is high and they
have been a Depositor in that Bank for many years. Regrettably, here’s
another label – it is a form of “Brain-Washing” (“Intensive, forcible
indoctrination, usually political or religious, aimed at destroying a
person's basic convictions and attitudes and replacing them with an
alternative set of fixed beliefs.”).This is not the Change people had
Hoped for in the 2008 Election.
In the meanwhile, those who are committed to Trusting in the Lord,
should remind themselves that (a) There is a God in Heaven and He is
always in control; (b) one’s Trust and Hope should never be in man but
always in the Lord; (c) Circumstances are temporary and Romans 8:28
remains functional: “…we know that for those who love God all things
work together for good, for those who are called according to his
purpose.”; and (d) when fear grips one’s heart and mind – Psalm 56:3-4,
“But when I am afraid, I put my trust in you. O God, I praise your
word. I trust in God, so why should I be afraid? What can mere mortals
do to me?” The road before us may still have many twists and turns, and
may even be a bit bumpy! There is an old Church Chorus that contains
the words: “Safe am I, Safe am I, In the hollow of His hand; Sheltered
o'er, sheltered o'er With His love forever more. No ill can harm me, No
foe alarm me, For He keeps both day and night, Safe am I, Safe am I, In
the hollow of His hand.” Consider these things with me!