On Sunday, August 16,1987, Northwest Airlines flight 225 crashed just
after taking off from the Detroit airport. One hundred fifty-five
people were killed. One survived: a 4-year-old from Tempe, Arizona,
named Cecelia. News accounts say when rescuers found Cecelia they did
not believe she had been on the plane.
Investigators first assumed
Cecelia had been a passenger in one of the cars on the highway onto
which the airliner crashed. But when the passenger register for the
flight was checked, there was Cecelia’s name. Cecelia survived because,
as the plane was falling, Cecelia’s mother, Paula Chican, unbuckled her
own seat belt, got down on her knees in front of her daughter, wrapped
her arms and body around Cecelia, and then would not let her go.
Nothing could separate that child from her parent’s love — not tragedy
or disaster, not the fall or the flames that followed, not height nor
depth, not life nor death.This is the kind of love our heavenly
Father has for us. We are secure in the fact that he will do whatever
is necessary to keep us near his heart. He will wrap himself around us
and never let go. We are safe in him.
Amen!! Hallelujah!!
By Carolyn Thomas
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