Grace under pressure

I have been traveling this week, first to Dallas then Chicago. My flights included a connection through Houston on Thursday. Needless to say I was tracking Ike all week. By Wednesday it was pretty certain that Thursday would be a good day in Houston, but by Friday things would be deteriorating. I had three hours to layover in Houston, and I have to say that all the people working there were courteous and professional even in the face of the impending direct hit by the hurricane. You could sense some uncertainty and dread, but in no way did it affect they way any of them interacted with customers. I have a lot of respect for those people. Makes you wonder about how you (I) would react under that pressure. We all have read about how our model for Christian life–Jesus–acted with grace under pressure. Can we do the same?

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