Trash Dispatch: Thursday, somewhere around 6:30pm, just 6hrs after the Trash Dispatch had reported "a ray of light, and a measure of hope"; Utah's Crandall Canyon mine shook, and 3 of our finest rescues workers died.
I started not to report on yesterday's "Strange Noises". But, I guess, I just wanted to hope so bad that, well, ...now I wonder if my own optimism..., no. Surly not.
Nevertheless it is an uneasy feeling when you lead people to "hope", only to have theirs hopes, ...crushed beneath a pile of rubble. (no pun intended here. I just don't know any other way to put it.) My hopes were crushed too. I really wanted to report on the rescue. That's why I haven't covered this story from the beginning. Because in today's world of Bad news, I wanted to report some Good news.
Maybe I should not have written yesterday's story? Maybe I should have reported on something else? Maybe I should not have been so optimistic? Maybe I should not have prayed? I don't know. But I do know this; the wives and families of those fine men, are all thinking the same kinds of things. And to them, my heart goes out.
Listen folks, I don't know why tragedy happens. But I do know this; "it Didn't happen, because you fixed eggs this morning instead of your usual biscuits and gravy!" It Didn't happen, because because you got angry and said something you should not have said. It Didn't happen, because you played hookie from school, or cheated on a test, or even because you got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning! No! It happened, because in life, there is pain and suffering, and joy and happiness, and yes, even death. And we have those things in life, because without them, there would be no life. And indeed, we would not be who we are.
I wish now, I had not reported on yesterday's hope. But then again, I had to! For just as our fallen rescue workers had to try; - just as our 911 rescuers had to try; - Just as our Husbands and Fathers Had to Try!... So too, we must all try.
And Try, and Try, and Try, and Hope, and Pray,
and do whatever we can do. And do it,
for no more reason than because of, "who" we are.
Hope!
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