Your Stomach Ache May Not Be Indigestion!
Do you listen to your gut feel? Do you stand firm on your intuition or do you let “outside” sources drag you away from your intended flight path?
The movie, Sully, with Tom Hanks is not only a great thriller of adventure but it contains an important spiritual message for us.
After the emergency landing on the Hudson River, The NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) questioned Sully’s decision to land on the river. Following their investigation and study, the many simulations they concluded that Sully could have made it is safely back to La Guardia or Trenton airports.
Sully, listening to his gut, full of past learning and experience, told him otherwise. Resolute in his evaluation of the situation, he remained firm in his conviction, urging the investigators to probe further into the “human factor”.
In the end, Sully’s intuition proved correct saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew. All the numbers, simulations, and conclusions were totally wrong. Sully’s gut won out!
What can we learn from this?
When God sends us to earth we are “equipped” to find our way back home, interacting with others on our journey. We have an inner counselor or guidance system. This inner GPS can be thought of as God’s Pulley System.
This unseen directional guide can tug us in certain directions. Emotions and feelings provide us with unbiased, untainted, and untouched evidence, meant just for us.
For Sully to turn back to the airport or when we act out of guilt conforming to what others want of us, we turn our back on vital information. In a sense we turn off our GPS and fly by the wishes of others. Outside interference will pull us away from fulfilling our destiny, our reason we are on this earth, our “why”.
We need to LISTEN to the Source within, TRUST the directional draw, and ACT bravely knowing that we are being divinely guided to fulfill our destiny.
FYI – the plane that Sully was scheduled to fly that day was not equipped with inflatable rafts because the flight path was not over water. By some “angelic intervention” the plane that Sully did take off in that day did indeed have the rafts saving passengers from hypothermia in the Hudson River on a freezing January day.
Moral of this story: Watch for miracles. They happen every day. God and His angels are at work in our ordinary lives, not only in New York!
