Romans 8:28, in our Bibles, says that all things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. I pray that this holds true for the plane that is gone and no one on earth seems to know where! Although the last part of the verse in Romans may not be true for everyone, it is true for those of us who continue in prayer for the passengers in the plane and for the plane itself.

What has happened to that plane? Not one person seems to know. However, God knows. I hope our prayers will find it. I wanted to dwell on one aspect of this dilemma. There are 25 countries working to find the plane. Isn’t that a miracle? 25 countries all pulling together and bringing whatever technological items they have to help out. Maybe this is how God is working, telling all of us to work together. Our world is no longer as big as it seemed back 65 or so years ago.

When I was a young girl, our own land, America, seemed very big. It took a long time to get to Philadelphia where my grandpa, aunts and uncles lived. Now it takes only a couple of hours! Why. we can have lunch in London and dinner in New York City! I never even dreamed of going to another country. In fact, we rarely left our own little town in Minnesota.

In today’s world, however, our world has shrunk. It’s leaders are fighting to get control. Control of what? we ask. Is it the whole world? The Bible tells us we will one day have a world dictator, an antichrist, but that isn’t what our leaders want, is it? But then one day a plane can’t be found and 25 nations decide to get together and find it. I like the idea. We can work together when we really want to, can’t we?

Wouldn’t it be nice if our world leaders worked together in peace, each country working for their own citizens and for their own country? Until then let’s continue in prayer for the passengers and the plane because this is important. But let’s pray also that the countries of the world will see that working together is really what we need today when our world has grown so much smaller. Our prayers can make these things happen.

I wonder today what has happened to the people who lost their jobs and haven’t found work for over two years! They aren’t eligible for Workers Compensation anymore and many of them are not old enough for retirement. They are probably in some never never land. Some have taken half time jobs earning probably only enough to take them back and forth to work. These are trained engineers, contractors, educational workers or health care workers. What are they doing?

These people cannot afford health insurance of any kind. They can’t afford car insurance either. About the only thing open to them is living on the streets. I am concerned for them, partly because my son is one of these unfortunate folks. He worked as a technical engineer for 20 years before the company decided to downsize. He hunted for work for well over a year and decided to open his own business on the internet as an editor and podcaster. This, of course takes time and now he got caught in Obama care. His health care let him go and he has been unable to find anything he can afford.

He lives with me and is a bachelor so in one way he is lucky, or rather God is caring for him. It is great that he lives with me because there are some things I can’t do any more. I am happy that I can stay in my own home and do the things I can do. He is working at home which enables him to help me much more than if he had a job outside of the home. God has a way to work things out, hasn’t he?

But there are many, some say over 30 million of them who are still looking for meaningful work in their trained field. My son is making strides in his new endeavor and soon he will be a successful entrepreneur. I believe we should put the rest of those 30 million people on our prayer list along with our military folks and our wounded veterans. We have a tendency to forget those who are less fortunate  then ourselves.

I also believe America would not be in such a horrible situation if we had a different president. Obama just wasn’t ready for the difficult job of being President of a great country like America. But we should have respect for the office of the presidency and pray for him and his family. Let’s be thankful we live in a country like America and do what we can to bring back our freedoms which we somehow have lost.