The Other Side of Sorrow
Donald Cantrell
Psalm 30:6-12
Theme: ‘‘We can be thankful in the midst of our trials and sorrow’’
Thanksgiving Sermon
I - One’s Prideful Claim (6)
II - One’s Prescribed Calamity (7)
III - One’s Painful Cry (8)
IV - One’s Pertinent Claim (9)
V - One’s Personal Challenge (10)
VI - One’s Precious Change (11)
VII - One’s Praise Continues (12)
The Old Man and the Gulls
It is gratitude that prompted an old man to visit an old broken pier on the eastern seacoast of Florida. Every Friday night, until his death in 1973, he would return, walking slowly and slightly stooped with a large bucket of shrimp. The sea gulls would flock to this old man, and he would feed them from his bucket.
Many years before, in October, 1942, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was on a mission in a B-17 to deliver an important message to General Douglas MacArthur in New Guinea. But there was an unexpected detour which would hurl Captain Eddie into the most harrowing adventure of his life.
Somewhere over the South Pacific the Flying Fortress became lost beyond the reach of radio. Fuel ran dangerously low, so the men ditched their plane in the ocean...For nearly a month Captain Eddie and his companions would fight the water, and the weather, and the scorching sun.
They spent many sleepless nights recoiling as giant sharks rammed their rafts.
The largest raft was nine by five. The biggest shark...ten feet long.
But of all their enemies at sea, one proved most formidable: starvation.
Eight days out, their rations were long gone or destroyed by the salt water. It would take a miracle to sustain them. And a miracle occurred.
In Captain Eddie’s own words, ‘‘Cherry,’’ that was the B- 17 pilot, Captain William Cherry, ‘‘read the service that afternoon, and we finished with a prayer for deliverance and a hymn of praise. There was some talk, but it tapered off in the oppressive heat. With my hat pulled down over my eyes to keep ...
Donald Cantrell
Psalm 30:6-12
Theme: ‘‘We can be thankful in the midst of our trials and sorrow’’
Thanksgiving Sermon
I - One’s Prideful Claim (6)
II - One’s Prescribed Calamity (7)
III - One’s Painful Cry (8)
IV - One’s Pertinent Claim (9)
V - One’s Personal Challenge (10)
VI - One’s Precious Change (11)
VII - One’s Praise Continues (12)
The Old Man and the Gulls
It is gratitude that prompted an old man to visit an old broken pier on the eastern seacoast of Florida. Every Friday night, until his death in 1973, he would return, walking slowly and slightly stooped with a large bucket of shrimp. The sea gulls would flock to this old man, and he would feed them from his bucket.
Many years before, in October, 1942, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was on a mission in a B-17 to deliver an important message to General Douglas MacArthur in New Guinea. But there was an unexpected detour which would hurl Captain Eddie into the most harrowing adventure of his life.
Somewhere over the South Pacific the Flying Fortress became lost beyond the reach of radio. Fuel ran dangerously low, so the men ditched their plane in the ocean...For nearly a month Captain Eddie and his companions would fight the water, and the weather, and the scorching sun.
They spent many sleepless nights recoiling as giant sharks rammed their rafts.
The largest raft was nine by five. The biggest shark...ten feet long.
But of all their enemies at sea, one proved most formidable: starvation.
Eight days out, their rations were long gone or destroyed by the salt water. It would take a miracle to sustain them. And a miracle occurred.
In Captain Eddie’s own words, ‘‘Cherry,’’ that was the B- 17 pilot, Captain William Cherry, ‘‘read the service that afternoon, and we finished with a prayer for deliverance and a hymn of praise. There was some talk, but it tapered off in the oppressive heat. With my hat pulled down over my eyes to keep ...
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