OK, it may look like I'm going all political here, but I'm not . . . this really isn't the place and frankly I am still not quite sure what politics solve [hey, what do you know, I just went political there].
Anyway, I read the the NYT this morning about the rescue of the captain of the ship Maersk Alabama (see NYT article here).
One quote got me (and not really in a good way) . . .
“This is truly a very happy Easter for the Phillips family,” said Alison McColl, a Maersk representative assigned to speak for the family. “They are all just so happy and relieved,” she said. “I think you can all imagine their joy and what a happy moment it was for them.”
I don't know why the people referred to as pirates did what they did . . . and I'm not sure that any of us that weren't there are truly getting the whole story. But it would appear that there were at least three people taking steps to do something that they thought was important -- even at the cost of impacting others.
I am not writing that I agree with it, but am laying groundwork for a point.
And the point is: Celebrating the gain of one family in the same breath that another three families have lost much all the while invoking or inferring a Divine Interaction seems at least wrong and perhaps at most hypocritical.