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Both pilots killed after jet hits fire truck at LaGuardia · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Greetings on this Monday, March the 23rd, 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the daily article podcast from Dinnison Forum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's daily article is written by co-founder Dr. Jim Dinnison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Chris Elkins, narrator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: an air Canada express jet collided with a fire truck while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport late last night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Both pilots were killed dozens of people were injured and the airport were remained closed until at least two p.m. eastern time today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Earlier in the day, I received news that my spiritual mother had passed away.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In August 1973, two men knocked on my apartment door in Houston, Texas inviting my brother and me to ride their best to church.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When we did, I was assigned to the 10th grade Sunday School Class taught by Sharon Suele, the pastor's wife.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She made me her project, inviting me to youth ministry events and calling me each Saturday to encourage me to come to church the next morning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On September 9th, 1973, she led me to faith in Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I will be grateful for her forever, literally.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mrs. Suele had been declining rapidly in recent weeks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her son told me yesterday that her last words to him were, I want to go to heaven.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She is now reunited with her husband, my first pastor, and we are celebrating her home going.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Some deaths like those that occurred in New York City last night are tragic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: others are caused for gratitude.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When acclaimed actor Chadwick Boseman died from colon cancer in August 2020, at the age of 43, many were shocked to hear that he had cancer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: His widow, Simone Ledward Boseman, told the today show last Friday that his symptoms began just weeks before his diagnosis and then he chose to fight the disease privately.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When asked if grieving
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the edges get less sharp, I think.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the best way to put it, she said.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There are still edges, and there are still a lot of painful moments, but I think it becomes easier to find the love in those moments as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You become more accustomed to carrying the weight of grief, but it doesn't go away.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And, quote, most of us who have experienced significant loss would agree with her, I think.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My father died in 1979 at the age of 45.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To this day, my greatest grief is that he never met my sons.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He would have been a wonderful grandfather.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Over these many years, I have to quote some own leadward, become more accustomed to carrying the weight of grief, but it's still there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the year since, however, I have come to believe that God redeems all he allows and to look for such redemption with my father's passing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In this regard, Arthur Brooks latest article for the free press isn't sightful.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He writes that many of the young people he has taught at Harvard and met in many other settings are, quote, undeniably, desperately, encouragedably, unhappy, and quote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then he started asking their stories.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He discovered a common thread.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Their lives are busy, but not meaningful.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wealth and achievement are insufficient in this regard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, Brooks reports that the wealthier and more technologically advanced the country, the greater the percentage of the population that answers no to the question, you feel your life has an important purpose or meaning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He explained this paradox in a way I had not seen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Most of us are familiar with the hypothesis that the left side of our brain is logical, while the right side is creative.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Brooks notes that this is not accurate, both hemispheres deal with just about everything our brains do, but they do so in consistently different ways.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Brooks sides the work of the British Neuroscientist and Psychiatrist Ian McGillkrist, who shows that the right side of our brain is the quote-unquote master, asking the big, transcendent questions such as, why am I alive?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The left side, which McGillkrist calls the quote-unquote imagery, addresses such practical questions as, how do I get food so I can keep being alive?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the problem, as Brooks explains.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: in our increasingly complicated technology dominated and endlessly distracting world, people are shoved to the left side of their brains.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are stuck in a complicated simulation where there is a lot going on, but which is bereft of mystery and meaning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quotes, with regard to carrying the weight of grief, our left side secularized culture processes death in practical, present-dense terms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We make arrangements for the funeral, manage the financial and practical aftermath, and seek ways to move on with our daily lives.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But the right side transcended questions remain.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What does my grief say about God?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What about me?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: About my purpose in life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In my case, God has used my father's early death to lead me into what has become my life long vocation, to engage the ultimate questions of life with biblical truth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I have focused on innocent suffering and other deep issues as a philosophy professor, a pastor, and now as a cultural apologist.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My father's death has become my gateway into a life of purpose as I seek to help others find purpose in their questions and challenges.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then if this makes my father's early death less painful, I still miss him and still wish he could know my children and now my grandchildren.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I find peace in the purpose his death has forged for me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I am grateful beyond words for the presence of my heavenly father, as he has grieved with me over these many years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we have walked through Psalm 23, verse 4's off quoted, The Valley of the Shadow of Death.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're carrying the weight of grief today, could I encourage you to seek God's purpose in your pain?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To ask him to show you how you can partner with him in redeeming your love.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: loss to look for ways to be what Henry now and called a wounded healer, someone who's pain enables you to help others with theirs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're not caring such way today, do you know someone who is?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Will you pray for them to find meaning in their grief and walk with them toward that hope?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The apostle Paul was no stranger to suffering, as noted by 2 Corinthians 11 verses 23 through 29, but he testified that our Lord is the father of mercies and God of all comfort in 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 3.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he discovered a purpose in such grace, adding in verse 4 that God comforts us in all our affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How will you, a forward, such grace, today?