{"id":218,"date":"2009-10-23T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T09:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayerplainandsimple\/2009\/10\/praying-for-situational-awareness.html"},"modified":"2009-10-23T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T09:39:18","slug":"praying-for-situational-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2009\/10\/praying-for-situational-awareness.html","title":{"rendered":"Praying For &#8220;Situational Awareness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Yesterday a Northwest Airlines A320 flying from San Diego to Minneapolis with more than 100 passengers on board overflew the runway &#8211; by 150 miles! According to the first official reports the pilots &#8220;lost situational awareness.&#8221; I&#8217;ll say. Rumors are flying explaining the lapse as everything from a heated argument that distracted them to the more likely explanation that both pilot and co-pilot took a long winter&#8217;s nap. Whatever the reasons, the fact remains a spooky situation. <\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Truth is, I&#8217;ve had experience losing &#8220;situational awareness.&#8221; The world is complicated and I&#8217;ve both argued and slept my way through my own assigned responsibilities. When I&#8217;m weary or irritable or both or more I&#8217;m prone to zone out and fly right by my target. This is why in days of stress and tension I MUST walk in a zone of prayer. God, my true auto-pilot can keep me and get them where I need to be!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span><font color=\"#000000\"><strong>&#8220;God, keep me focused today on the things that need my attention. Keep me in a state of peace and alert awareness. And then you take care of the rest!&#8221; <\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Follow me on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/markherringshaw\">Twitter<\/a><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday a Northwest Airlines A320 flying from San Diego to Minneapolis with more than 100 passengers on board overflew the runway &#8211; by 150 miles! According to the first official reports the pilots &#8220;lost situational awareness.&#8221; I&#8217;ll say. 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