Not All Disruptions Are Disasters     
     
   When our future works out exactly as planned, we don't learn anything beyond what we already knew and our prejudices.

   So writes Janie B. Cheaney in WORLD magazine. She quotes a woman who had an abortion at age 17, who said, "If I hadn't my life would have been ruined." Abortion already ruins at least one life. 

   We men don't understand a pregnant woman's fear of the unknown. 

   There are many disruptions in life, some from outside and some our own doing. The Bible includes many examples - like Joseph - of disrupted people for whom God meant it for good. 

   If the person or thing that upset your apple cart hadn't happened, maybe something else would have. The unexpected may be severe and life altering, but it also shapes and teaches. We know this personally. Better yet, consider Joni Eareckson Tada. 

   Jesus is most disruptive of all, Cheaney writes. We who receive him experience "creative destruction of the old man, so as to build something new."  

Trivia   
   During World War I, soldiers received $5,000 insurance policies, about the price of an average farm. If a soldier died, he _ _ _ _ _ _   _ _ _  _ _ _ _.

   And from Civil War era iron-clad ships, something so strong it can't be broken
is an _ _ _ _   _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _ _ _. 
    

Tomorrow: 

Profiles in Corruption summation.

Which politician is our designated "worst of the worst?" 

      Jimmy