Why I Wonder

I don't usually write much about current affairs but I am as bewildered and consumed by the lost plane as everyone else is. I had to wonder.

Why?

I don't know anyone on the plane. I don't even know anyone who knows someone on the plane. I have been much more closely connected to tragedies of much larger proportions. So why, oh why, am I hanging on every update like it's manna?I think it's because in this modern day with cell phones and instagram and tweets and texts, the thought that hundreds of people could simply disappear is astonishing. In general, we live very "connected" lives and I think we live under the assumption that we can and will always be connected. My last flight on Southwest Airlines allowed me to watch HGTV while sending emails. There are still planes that have phones. We know from the 9/11 Tragedy that cell phones, while discouraged and disliked on planes, do work on planes. So how did all of these people disappear from the sky, the map, and the internet?It challenges everything.I am sad for these people. I am even sadder for their families. But mostly, I am mystified.I continue to pray for these lost souls, but truthfully I pray for answers. I tell myself that I wish this for their left-behind loved one but maybe it's a little for me, too. Because the thought that I could truly be "Lost", that I could disappear off the radar like these poor people, is overwhelming.