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On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing seven crew members and traumatizing a nation. 
    
Millions of viewers (including many while in school and collage) watched; I was one of them…

Much of the nation watched the launch live more so than ever before because in part Christa McAuliffe, a social studies teacher who was to be the first civilian in space, was on board. She along with:

·        Francis Scobee, commander…

·        Michael Smith, pilot…

·        Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik... These were the mission specialists…

·        Gregory Jarvis, payload specialist…

The cause of the disaster now no secret, it was traced to an O-ring, a circular gasket that sealed the right rocket booster. This had failed due to the low temperature (31°F) at launch time – a risk that several engineers noted, but that NASA management dismissed…

Over a billion dollars in costs for a flight that lasted 73 seconds, claiming these seven lives due simply due to a failed .90 cent oring…

The design was inadequate to meet the conditions and the stress that was put upon something that all the engineers, and people involved; said was fine…

How could something so small as to an oring derail such a mission such as this? After all it was just an oring…

An oring, something that is the least in terms when it comes to the value of such a huge undertaking…

An oring to such an important mission… This one tragic event would determine that even down to an oring everything is and was important… Everything is valuable… Everything is significant…

I cant help but ask, how many souls have been lost, lives taken when it comes to things much like this oring??? Things small and overlooked that has claimed one’s relationship with GOD… Things that in the grand scheme of things that in the end are deemed of so little value…

 Why sir, if I may ask??? Why build your house on the sand? When within a little more cost and a little more time and with a little more effort... You could haul the materials needed to build your house on a foundation that will stand the test of time… Surely you know its going to rain… Storms always come… The waves of life surely you know will test you sir…  

Sir, mam; for whatever for would you be the one to grind at the mill and be the one to be left behind???  

Mr. or Mrs. Farmer why would you regard the clouds, the wind to keep you from sowing seed???  

What of you sir??? Your rich and increased with goods why the passion and drive for bigger barns???  

You Mr. Lawyer??? You have bowed before HIM… You have gotten an audience with the divine… You have set with your very creator… How can you possibly walk away with sorrow??? When you Mr. Lawyer can forever find peace, contentment and resource, that even your money will never be able to buy…  

Judas… What, thirty pieces of silver for your savior??? How can that be when you walked with HIM, was with HIM daily as HE healed the sick, cleansed the leper, forgave sin, and conquered devils???

The temperature, the demands came upon the oring and it failed… And the mission was denied…

·        What will deny us our GOD given purpose???

·        What will claim GOD’S promises to us???

·        What will rob us our destination???

·        What will steal away our victory???

·        What will cause us to forfeit our rights as a child of GOD???

·        What strong delusion will we believe???

·        What will cause us to make HIS possibility for us impossible???

·        What will blind us of our vision and bring our mission to defeat???

Whatever it is someday we will see it for what it really was... Something that was as small as an oring… Something that we ourselves deemed as insignificant and of little value and consequence…