Turning a Sigalert into a sermon

An interesting postscript to the 405 crane crash two weeks ago that brought L.A. traffic to a halt. It comes from Reverend Diane Gallo Ryder of Tehachapi Community Congregational Church. Writing in the Tehachapi News, Ryder says:

Missionaries are generally known to be compassionate people of faith who can walk the proverbial mile in another’s shoes. Last week our church hosted a wonderful group of missionaries, a husband and wife team serving in Swaziland. They were scheduled to arrive at 5 p.m. but instead arrived at 7:30 p.m. due to a major obstruction on the I- 405 leading out of Los Angeles. It seems that a crane crashed into the highway and stopped traffic for up to four hours in some places. The husband was familiar with Los Angeles traffic so he immediately tuned on the radio to hear the latest traffic report. His wife, unfamiliar with L.A. traffic, turned to him when she heard the report and said, “I feel sorry for those people stuck on the I-405.” Laughing, her husband responded, “We ARE those people!”

Ryder sees a larger message in her SigAlert: "...Everyone gets stuck on life’s highway sometimes; and everyone bears the journey better with a companion along the way because “We ARE those people!”