{"id":4673,"date":"2025-06-04T07:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/js1cd06kre.onrocket.site\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2025-06-04T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:47:05","slug":"when-pigs-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/when-pigs-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"When Pigs Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast,\u00a0<\/em>click here<\/a>

A few years ago, two first class passengers on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Seattle made arrangements to travel with a pet.

Their \u201ctherapeutic companion animal\u201d turned out to be a full-grown pig.

Others passengers described the 300-pound hog as \u201cenormous, brown, angry, and honking.\u201d\u00a0

At first he was seated across three seats toward the front of the plane, but attendants had difficulty strapping him in.

After takeoff, the pig began to saunter through the cabin. He rubbed his nose on people\u2019s legs, begged for food, and tried to coax other passengers into stroking him.

When the plane landed things quickly went from bad to worse.\u00a0The pig raced up and down the aisle, shrieking and squealing.\u00a0People stood on their seats.\u00a0The pig got loose on the concourse and was ultimately trapped in another part of the Seattle airport.

When asked to comment, US Airways spokesman David Castelveter made two statements:

\u201cWe can confirm that the pig traveled.\u00a0And we can confirm that it will never happen again.\u201d

When you think about it, that\u2019s a pretty good starting point for dealing with something that has gone seriously wrong.

It happened, and it will never happen again.<\/em>

Traditionally this would be called confession and repentance. \u201cI did it. And I promise that my future will be such that we will never have to have this conversation again.\u201d\u00a0Or at least, by God\u2019s grace, this will happen in my life less and less often.\u00a0

According to the Bible, there\u2019s a third element that needs to come into play.\u00a0

I should ask for forgiveness.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m genuinely sorry this happened.\u201d\u00a0

Now the drama shifts to the injured or offended party \u2013 in this case, those whose attempts to watch the in-flight movie (was it Babe<\/em>, perhaps?) were periodically interrupted by a pig snout seeking honey roasted peanuts.\u00a0

But isn\u2019t forgiving somebody the coward\u2019s way out? Isn\u2019t that just an option for the weak?\u00a0

Who are we kidding?\u00a0 Only the strong are able to forgive<\/em>.\u00a0

Only those who are spiritually tough-minded can embrace an authentic vision for healing and have sufficient inner resources to give up the right to be indignant or angry.\u00a0

Forgiveness is not an absence of accountability. It\u2019s a courageous decision to refuse to let past mistakes destroy present relationships.\u00a0

Since those who walk with God are the most forgiven people in the world, shouldn\u2019t we also be the most forgiving<\/em> people in the world?

You may find yourself thinking, \u201cI\u2019ll forgive the monster who wrecked my life when pigs fly.\u201d

Consider it done. \u00a0<\/em>
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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast,\u00a0click here A few years ago, two first class passengers on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Seattle made arrangements to travel with a pet. Their \u201ctherapeutic companion animal\u201d turned out to be a full-grown pig. Others passengers described the 300-pound hog as \u201cenormous, brown, angry, and honking.\u201d\u00a0 At first he was… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[778,76,936],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-confession","tag-forgiveness","tag-repentance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4675,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions\/4675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}