BEYOND OUR SORROWS
“There are some of your graces which would never be discovered if it were not for your trials.” C. H. Spurgeon T o survive calamities beyond human control, it takes God’s grace – His mercy. What else can we call it? Luck? Co-incidence? Whatever that is… Once we survive, Life still goes on, right? So, what does it take to make Life worthy of that Grace, Mercy, Luck, Coincidence, whatever that is? On this Easter morning, I came across the story of Kechi Okwuchi. At 16, she was a school student in Nigeria. On 10 th December, 2005, she and 60 of her schoolmates were on their way home for Christmas. The Sololiso Airlines Flight-1145 had 109 passengers including five crew members, Kechi and her 60 schoolmates. Due to a terrible turbulence, the plane crashed while landing. Only two passengers survived… Kechi was one of them! Kechi, in a state of coma, was airlifted, for immediate medical attention, to a hospital in Johannesburg, South Afric...