Mining Accidents

There have been a number of mining accidents recently. Think China and West Virginia. When the China accident happened, I was still living in a little hole from my trip. I have watched the news though this past week about West Virginia. One thing has really struck me....they don't seem shocked by what happened and I haven't seen a family that has been upset with the company yet.


Maybe that is just the stations I'm watching, but people are talking about their family members....how they liked to hunt and fish....how mining was their life.

it had become so much their life that they didn't see the danger. they knew the potential for danger existed, but they weren't upset or angry at the source of the danger---the mine that was not up to code.

this leads me to think about how many times we are lulled into a false sense of security. sometimes it is by good things that we tend to get caught up in...family, career, reaching a goal. other times it is that gradual decline. we enter into something that we know might be dangerous to us morally, physically, spiritually, or emotionally and gradually we lose the acute sense of danger...so much that when things start falling apart, we don't even think to "blame" the root of the problem.

something to think about...