[Luis Gonzalez]

You introduced me to this poem.

[prisoner6]

Thank you both.

prisoner6

[snopercod]

I had forgotten. I'm just in denial right now, trying to ignore what has happened as if that will make it go away. I unplugged my telephone.

My heart especially goes out to Ray Knispel, the OTC who launched the Columbia (his first launch, I believe.) He and the other members of the launch team will have to carry this with them forever, and wonder if there was anything that they did wrong.

My heart also goes out to the tile techs and mechanical techs at KSC who will be wondering the same.

There is a lot of crying going on down there right now.

I knew this Forward Tech who was a member of the select "closeout crew". He quit one day and I asked him why. He told me "If I stayed, I know that one day I would load the astronauts into the crew module, and they wouldn't come back. I couldn't live with that."

[JohnHuang2]

Thank you for posting, Luis...

[f.Christian]

1 Corinthians 13


The Greatest Gift


The Greatest Spiritual Gift
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[1] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.