Apollo 13

[Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) is being interviewed about his life as a pilot.  He was interviewed because he is the Captain for the Apollo 13 space flight to the moon. His wife, and daughter watch.  It is said that Apollo 13 (the real story) was a successful failure.]

I really enjoy when Hollywood takes the time to tell the true stories our culture has already experienced.  It brings that story to a new generation and has lots to offer them.  I was not even alive when the mission of Apollo 13 took place.  My parents hadn't even meet yet.  They were in middle school.  Yet this is a story that has a lot to teach us in this modern era.  

I love the way that Jim is able to look at a circumstance that was terrible, and recognize Providence in it.  He mentions that had his lights not shorted out he would not have been able to see the green in the water, and ultimately find his way home.  The line he stated is so beautiful for us, "You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home."  How true is this for us as well?  So often I hear people complain, myself included, about why we have to go through painful experiences, or unpleasant ones, but many times that is the means that God is using to bring us home, to heaven.  It is Him reaching down and shorting out your cockpit lights so that you can see the thing that will get you home.  

Earlier he stated that one of his instruments that should have led him home had been hijacked by the enemy and would have led him in the wrong direction.  How many times does that happen in our own lives?  We trust something because it has always steered us right before, but the Enemy is crafty.  He can use things that we have always trusted to bring us away from our home.  God wants us home, and sometimes He uses the most unusual of circumstances, things that might seem like He has abandoned us, to bring us to Him.