Mark Sorensen In February of 1954, a Navy pilot set out on a night training mission from a carrier off of the coast of Japan. As he lifted off in stormy weather, his directional finder malfunctioned and he, unknowingly, headed off in the wrong direction. As if that’s not bad enough, his instrument panel also short circuited causing all of his interior lights in the cockpit to go out, leaving him utterly and completely in the dark.
As the pilot looked around, he saw nothing. What was blackness outside the plane, actually came inside. However, all was not lost. As he looked down on the dark waters of the ocean below him, he saw a faint blue-green glow trailing along the ocean’s surface. He had trained and prepared enough to know that what he was looking at was a cloud of phosphorescent algae glowing in the sea that was stirred up by passing ships traveling across the waters. According to this pilot, it was the “least reliable and most desperate method” of navigating a plane back to safety, but the pilot – future Apollo 13 astronaut, Jim Lovell – knew it was exactly what he needed to do.
I love that it was light that led Jim Lovell to safety.
I wonder how many around us on a daily basis are searching for something to guide them to safety in their lives. Maybe this is you today. Here’s the good news: Jesus is still the light of the world. The post Easter message still holds strong for us today. Jesus is ALIVE and His light is there for all to find and claim.
This is good news, friend. Receive it, claim it, and then? Share that light with others. It’s what we were called to do;)
