Here’s the song:

And here’s a link to the website, where you can remix the video, write new lyrics, and more: www.bornagainamerican.org

Hope from that Plane Crash in New York

I was on twitter the other afternoon. If you aren’t familiar with it, it’s a social networking site where your posts are a maximum of 140 characters. I’m on it mainly to connect with other people who are into dog training, one of my interests. I started seeing tweets about what a great rescue job had saved people from a plane crash into the river in New York City. Other people added details, that everyone had survived it seemed (later confirmed), and more. After that I went to Google News and found articles.

The outpouring of gratitude and celebration for these 155 lives and for the extraordinary skill of the pilot continued through Twitter and through the news stories. There was so much joy that what could have been fatal wasn’t. There could not have been a more prepared pilot for that flight. Well, you probably know a lot of this.

The plane crash strikes me as a powerful metaphor of hope for what is going on now in our world.

Just before the inauguration at that. Somehow, a very different outcome was achieved from what must have seemed inevitable to the passengers when they heard the pilot tell them to prepare for impact, they were going down.

So many people in our world are impacted by all the changes, so many people feel that they are going down, whether financially or in other ways. The passengers endured some frigid water and hypothermia, some wounds and broken bones, but they are going to be okay. I have fresh hope that we all can endure the hardships and work together for a better world, everywhere.