My dad used to work for a railroad company that was local and had a few engines. As you know, usually trains run smoothly and you only really hear about them when that is not the case. The day of this story, that was the situation. Someone had put something on the tracks that caused their engine to derail as it was crossing over I-95. Can you imagine a more worst case scenario? It is one thing for your train to derail in a field or somewhere where there aren't people, it's a completely different thing for your train to derail over one of the most trafficked interstates on the East coast.
What do you do!? You call a very very very expensive company that is trained for these kinds of emergencies (haha train pun). They're expensive because they get in, they fix the problem quickly, and they get out.
This is the image that came to mind when Pastor Phil made that statement. It hit me like a night train, we all become derailed at some point. But instead of seeking help, we just kind of stay there for a while wallowing unless, as this incident was, it is a public ordeal. We hope that somehow we'll just get back on the tracks and maybe no one will see or judge us. But how can we do that without any help?
What we really need are the experts, we need a willingness and desperation to pay the price to get back on the tracks quickly. As we sit there hanging off, we could be putting other people in danger. We aren't functioning the way we were designed to. We were made to move but the train can't move when it is off the tracks.
I think it is important to find that emergency company and be ready to call them when the accident happens. These companies, and these people need to exist in our lives because we are going to become derailed. It isn't a matter of if, but when. It's just part of life, but that doesn't have to be the end of the story and hopefully it doesn't have to be an extended part of the story if we deal with our derailments quickly.
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