Society for the Preservation of My Sanity

Just wanted to mention the awful plane crash at Bluegrass Airport on Sunday morning. We were stunned when we sat down to watch our favorite preacher to find all the news reports had preempted the service.

As the reports kept coming in all day, some of the names started coming out. The honeymooning couple they mentioned? We knew them sort of indirectly. And what a really strange bizarre way we knew them...

First, the bride's father is a friend of Tommy's. He owns a tire store here and over the years has been so kind as to let us make payments on tires. He's also a big kart enthusiast, so of course they spent a lot of time together talking about that stuff.

The groom is the guy who Mom bought her set of Golden Retrievers from about 18 months ago. She's also known his grandmother for years. A friend of ours goes to church with his mother. He played baseball and so my cousins knew him well since they were also great baseball enthusiasts and had always followed their son and daughter's high school and college ball careers.

The bizarre part comes now. I get kind of light headed when I think about it. Seriously. It's that weird.

I had a young 22 year old first cousin who died in a car crash about 5 years ago. He was a baseball player and so was pals with the groom from the plane crash. Deano was in some turmoil, trying to figure out what to do with his life. He'd just dropped out of college. He'd just finished rebuilding a souped-up engine for his pick-up. He had a pretty, popular girlfriend, so in a lot of ways, he had the world by the tail too... Nobody's sure what happened on that curvy road... Did he just think he could take the curve going too fast? Was he not paying attention? Was he trying to top someone else's speed? Was he under the influence of something?

We never knew. His truck exploded immediately upon the tremendous impact with a large tree. There was nothing left but enough to tell that it used to be a truck. Deano was gone entirely. It was a horrible experience for us all.

The bride from the plane crash was Deano's girlfriend at the time of his death.

God has a plan, even if I don't understand it.

And I really, really don't.

I thank You Lord, that You are in control and not me!