Prayer saves airplane

[Eran of Arcadia]

We can discuss whether the praying was a significant source of the plane landing safely.

Umm . . . sure.

I would say it's about 42.5% responsible, then.

 

[Godwynn]

If we would have prayed on 9/11 would Muhammad have turned back those planes?

 

[Ecofarm]

"See down here on the ground, I'm a baptist. But up there I ain't taking no chances" -Fred Sanford.

At ~8:50 , link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1qB5ruMNAY

 

[Formaldehyde]

Somewhat related:

http://www.spirituality.com/tte/art...ementName=A pilot's prayer for a safe landing

A pilot's prayer for a safe landing

Scott Corydon Jenkins

While I was getting a haircut recently, my stylist told me one of her colleagues had been killed in a car accident. She lamented that sometimes chance delivers unfortunate results.

I left the salon thinking about the notion of chance. Statistics may imply that travel comes with the risk of accident. But Christian Science has taught me that prayer leads to God-given protection that precludes bad luck.

Over the years, I’ve found prayer to be very effective protection—especially before travel. I am an instrument-rated private pilot, and I’ve been flying since 1994. Before takeoff, I make a point of flipping through a stack of index cards I carry in my flight bag. These cards have various quotes from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Most of them relate to travel and flying and they all offer an encouraging, uplifting message.

I look for a truth about God’s ever-present care.
I draw one or two cards from the stack and read them over, thinking about them in a prayerful way. The idea is to find a truth about God and His ever-present care for all of us, and then to affirm that truth. This isn’t an intellectual exercise; it helps me to focus my thought on my relationship with God and makes me aware of God’s presence. This makes me feel safe. Then I begin my flight.

On one flight to St. Louis some years ago, I began with my customary search through the index cards. I found one that gave me an assurance of God’s goodness as the only power. Supported by this knowledge, I finished my preflight checks on the aircraft and took off.

I was flying at 9,000 feet because there was wind turbulence in the lower altitudes. As I neared the end of my three-hour trip and began to descend into the St. Louis area, the air traffic controller advised me of high-velocity storms scattered throughout the region. This weather activity included abrupt wind shifts, resulting in dangerous wind shears. As soon as I heard this, I began to pray.

I remembered the Bible story of Elijah and his great fear of, and escape from, Jezebel, a wicked queen who wanted to take his life. During his flight into the wilderness, he witnessed an earthquake, a fire, and a great wind which broke an entire mountain into pieces. But Elijah realized that God’s infinite power was in none of these. Then he heard “a still small voice,” which brought him peace. To me, this was a quiet angel idea—a divine message—that God was present.

God was right there with me.
I felt this story was a promise that God was right there with me. God’s presence began to feel more powerful to me than the storm conditions I was approaching. I reasoned that God is more potent than all material force because He is pure spiritual reality. Then I remembered the definition of wind in Science and Health: “That which indicates the might of omnipotence and the movements of God’s spiritual government, encompassing all things.”

When this sentence came to mind, I was aware that I was governed by God’s eternal government of peace and safety. It occurred to me that this was the real condition that encompassed everyone flying at that very moment. I felt as though I were flying not from material point to material point, but as a spiritual idea through the kingdom of God’s making, in which there were no destructive forces, no accidents, no change from divine Love.

I thought of the first verse of a hymn from the Christian Science Hymnal:

In heavenly Love abiding,

No change my heart shall fear;

And safe is such confiding,

For nothing changes here.

The storm may roar without me,

My heart may low be laid;

But God is round about me,

And can I be dismayed?

(Anna L. Waring, No. 148)

The comforting angel thoughts that came to me were that I abided forever in divine Love; nothing could change this fact. I was safe here, now. If it was storming, it was storming without me. God was all around me. I felt a strong sense of peace.

I tuned my radio to get the weather at my destination airport, and learned that some pilots had experienced dangerous wind shears there. I could have flown another two hours to get out of the storm area, but that would have put me at the limit of my fuel reserve. So I continued my descent while companioning with the angel ideas my prayers had brought to me. I felt a holy sense of God’s presence and power.

I was flying in the kingdom of God.
As I drew near the airport, I radioed the tower and was warned once again that previous planes had experienced various degrees of wind shear. But on my final approach to land, I felt no fear. I felt like I was flying in the kingdom of God. I landed and reached the hangar without incident.

I know my safe landing wasn’t a case of good luck. I felt completely enveloped by God’s presence in my plane.

There is a divine law of protection that each of us can turn to, no matter what circumstance we’re in. Whether we are traveling by plane, car, boat, bicycle, or on our own two feet, our prayers can be effective aids to realizing we are safe in God’s care. We are not at the whim of chance and hazardous weather. Divine Love is always ready to assist us in experiencing the safe harbor of Her loving presence.

 

[Defiant47]

Sweet Jesus, that's like an absurdly good horror story

 

[Ecofarm]

Christian Science has taught me that prayer leads to God-given protection that precludes bad luck.

Who reads beyond that?

 

[Phlegmak]

There is a divine law of protection that each of us can turn to, no matter what circumstance we’re in. Whether we are traveling by plane, car, boat, bicycle, or on our own two feet, our prayers can be effective aids to realizing we are safe in God’s care. We are not at the whim of chance and hazardous weather. Divine Love is always ready to assist us in experiencing the safe harbor of Her loving presence.

Sounds like a future Darwin award winner who'll be taking a lot of other people with him.

 

[J-man]

Seems like the Jews and Christians have been wrong all the time.

 

[cardgame]

Who reads beyond that?

I know that that's where I stopped

 

[Earthling]

Who reads beyond that?

I wanted to see if he mentioned how prayer could have helped save his brother Leeroy.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Prayer is one of the fundamental forces of the universe. Prayons in the presence of a strong prayer field have been known to interact very strongly with matter.

 

[dwaxe]

Prayer is one of the fundamental forces of the universe. Prayons in the presence of a strong prayer field have been known to interact very strongly with matter.

Allow me to elaborate, because knowledge about prayons is not common knowledge, and I should share my expertise. For every minute a single person prays*, one prayon is rewarded to the Divine Bank© account of the god being prayed to. Because sacrifices** have been shown to decrease the speed at which people start praying to you (some gods have even lost huge numbers of members because they wanted sacrifices), they are only used as a last resort.

The original version of the Divine Bank© only allowed exchanging prayons for custom miracles. The gods had to pay the Divine Bank© to be able to use the new miracles designed by the bank--you can't impress the same people with the same tricks because they start becoming banal. The cost of miracles was slightly larger than the extra prayons gained from using the miracles to impress followers to pray to you, so the Divine Bank©, for a time, was like a casino. Over the aeons, they added more user-friendly features to their system. Version 2.0 of their miracle system was revolutionary--it allowed gods to create their own scripts for miracles. Now the possibilities for what the miracles could do were limited only by a god's creativity and programming skills. The cost system was also updated so that different programming subroutines, such as affecting humans' minds, would cost more prayons.

*There are multipliers for the amount of time for a person to create a prayon, such as being part of a group of people praying (from x.99 for 2 people to x.50 for 200 people), being an uneducated young child (x.50), praying out loud (x1.5 to x.5, depending on the Divine Bank's© current "talking value"), and etc. Find the full list of multipliers at their website. All multipliers can stack.

**Sacrifices are worth a damn lot more prayons than simple prayer, depending on the expected life span of the person. The range is from a maximum of 10000 for newborn babies to 0 for people close to death.