Some stories are just too bizarre to pass up a comment. Just when I think that I've seen it all, something comes along to top the last strange headline. Did you hear the one about the astronaut who drove from Houston to Orlando to confront the other woman in a creepy love triangle? If you missed this news item then you must have no contact with the outside world. Yesterday a decorated NASA astronaut was arrested for threatening another woman who seems to be sharing the affections of yet another astronaut. This is a woman who flew on one of the last space shuttle missions. She is a married mother of three children. It is not even clear what relationship this woman had with the man in question. Here is a story that just makes me shake my head in amazement. The oddest part of this whole thing is she wore adult diapers on her cross country trip to cut down the time. Perhaps this woman will be found to have some real issues but she is definitely organized as well as persistent.

Today she returned home to Houston. Her last trip home was one of celebration over her flight into outer space. No doubt her family welcomed her with open arms over her achievement. I almost would like to be a fly on the wall to see how this homecoming is going. NASA will be conducting extensive physical and psychological testing on her over the next few days. It makes one question if they will find some odd space debris clouded her common sense. This all seems beyond mind boggling that a successful astronaut could descend this fast into notoriety.

This isn't the first occasion of how things can go bad in a hurry. Scripture is filled with stories of how good men and women lose their way in life. James 1: 13-15 tells how temptation leads to sin because of our tendency to follow through on desire. We all have weaknesses that we try to deny or cover up. We all have unknown places in our personality where temptation could get a foothold. Our best option is to stay close to the God who sees us through experiences such as these. He will reveal our weaknesses so we turn to Him for strength. He will even shine His light on the undiscovered places though it may be painful at first. He will never give up on us no matter how often we fail. We may never fail as publically as this woman or as some of the characters in the Bible. We can know that God's ability to forgive will always outweigh our tendency to blow it.

Bro. Trey