Current Event - Hero-Pilot

Captain Chesley Sullenberger who courageously steered the aircraft to safety and saved all the passengers on Thursday, 15th of January, 2009. The place of crash-landing: Hudson river in New York. ----------------------------------------- They are using sonar to locate the engines which are believed to have detached after the US Airways Airbus A320 hit the water on Thursday. Officials are also planning to lift the aircraft from the river on Saturday and recover the flight recorders. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg hailed the pilot, who landed the plane in the Hudson with no loss of life, as a hero. Mr Bloomberg said he would be giving "incredibly brave" Captain Chesley Sullenberger and his crew the keys to the city. National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman Kitty Higgins The mayor also honoured rescuers who pulled all 155 passengers and crew to safety from icy waters. Capt Sullenberger said earlier that the crash was caused by birds flying into the engines. Investigators say they plan to interview him on Saturday. ----------------------------------------- Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit!

Not overdoing it

The Abba and the Bowman ............................................... A hunter in the desert saw Abba Anthony enjoying himself with the brethren and he was shocked. Wanting to show him that it was necessary sometimes to meet the needs of the brethren, the old man said to him, "Put an arrow in your bow and shoot it." So he did. The old man then said, "Shoot another," and he did so. Then the old man said, "Shoot yet again," and the hunter replied, "If I bend my bow so much I will break it." Then the old man said to him, "It is the same with the work of God. If we stretch the brethren beyond measure they will soon break. Sometimes it is necessary to come down to meet their needs." When he heard these words the hunter was pierced by compunction and, greatly edified. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Comments to: vmalpan@gmail.com

God is Compassion

GOD IS COMPASSION -----------------------------------

"The fullest work

that God ever worked

in any creature

is compassion..."

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Whatever God does,

the first outburst is always compassion."

"In compassion

justice and peace kiss...

What is born of God

seeks peace

and runs into peace."

+++++++ "Even the heavens are continually running and in their running are seeking peace." ~~~~~~~~~ "You may call God love you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion." ^^^^^^^^^^ "Jesus became a human being because God the compassionate One could not suffer and lacked a back to be beaten. God needed a back like our backs on which to receive blows and thereby to perform compassion as well as to preach it." ******** "How ever great one's suffering is, if it comes through God, God suffers from it first." --- From Mathew Fox, Meditations with Meister Eckhart --- vmalpan@gmail.com