Riveted

Lisa Livezey
Jul 24
2 min read

And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall! —Matthew 7:26-27 NRSV

We see here the 15-ton "Big Piece," a portion of the Titanic's hull, hauled two miles up from its sandy grave at the bottom of the north Atlantic Ocean.

Three million rivets were used in the Titanic's construction and the ship was considered unsinkable to the point of its owners disregarding the builder's plans to include all 64 lifeboats. And everyone knows what happened at 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912.

Assumptions regarding the Titanic's construction were built upon the sandy foundation of human hubris. And when the giant ship fell to the sand of the ocean floor, how "great was its fall!"

Prayer

God of the rock, sand, and sea, grant us the humility to seek Your wisdom in how and what we build.

Quote

A humble soul does not trust itself, but places all its confidence in God.

//St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938)

Thought

God is bigger than anything we are building, no matter how mammoth the project.

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