Without a Trace

Two hundred people is a lot of people in anyone’s language. That is the number of persons in the Air France flight that were missing in a flight from Rio to Paris.  

Authorities have done their best to track its flight path in the hope of finding survivors, or some part of the wreckage that may give some clue to its fate. Immediately, the focus of the world’s media is on the tragic loss of life. When the two hundred people are seen as part of extended families, workplaces and communities, the number of those affected expands exponentially.

Without detracting from the tragedy we do need to put it in perspective. While any major disaster is a reason for concern, every day a much larger number of people die, are seriously injured, or they suffer from a life-changing health challenge. These catastrophic events change the lives of the individuals and families equally as much as the Air France disaster, but they go unheralded, and unnoticed because they take place one family at a time. And, because we are all caught up in our own little universe, we are not aware of the scope of the tragedy, and it receives no deadlines or media coverage.

When we add to these statistics the number affected by depression, alcohol abuse, drugs, and the debilitating effects of tobacco, it truly appears as Ellen White terms it, “a vast laser house of suffering.” And like those on Air France, many of these people disappear—into institutions, hospitals, and the silent, lonely world of schizophrenia or depression.

The combined resources of a number of nations are expending time, energy and monies, in an attempt to locate the missing plane and its passengers. Similarly, a number of talented and dedicated people have invested their all into books containing the necessary information to find and recover the missing people where you and I live and work.

What level of energy and earnestness are we demonstrating in our efforts, in our designated territory, to recover the lost? Some may not be found until much later in life, or in the space of time, but a book placed in the homes will be used by God, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit and the holy angels, to bring the lost back to their eternal homes.

May God empower you,

Kevin Geeland
Australia
www.see-le.com

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