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Posted by: david	6/30/2008
The younger son is on his way to Berlin...hopefully. We dropped him off at the Detroit airport yesterday afternoon where he took off for Newark (after a lengthy delay) to catch a connecting flight to Frankfurt (also late) to hop a train to Leipzig (if he got there in time) and then a second train to Berlin. Lot's of connections...lots of things that could possibly go wrong. And...oh yeah...the phone card machine at the Newark airport ate $20. Beware! Traveling in this day and age isn't all that glamorous. But that's not really what this is about. Rather...I'm intrigued with how we entrust ourselves to all these incredibly complicated schedules and machines and legions of people we've never met and who may or may not give a flying fig about our ultimate welfare. Yet we do it on a daily basis without so much as a second thought. And although we might gripe and moan about the details, most of the time things turn out OK. Does that seem amazing to anyone else? Here's my guess. Things work because the basic, cosmic platform on which they're built works. In other words...the universe is so well thought out and assembled that we are able to add our human constructs, imperfect though they be, and things still turn out OK. The foundation God has laid is sturdy enough for us to build on and play with. And even when we mess up, the world doesn't fall apart. We may complain, grieve...even do incredible evil. But the bedrock doesn't move. I like that idea. It makes it easier letting your youngest venture off to a foreign country knowing that, even there, he's standing on the same solid rock that undergirds us all.

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