For the second-straight week, flight delays at Newark Liberty International Airport are stackin’ like luggage.

The Federal Aviation Administration is trying to mitigate staffing shortages (a long-running issue), tech failures, and bad weather hitting the Northeast corridor (Boston to D.C.). Thousands of flights have been delayed and hundreds canceled; United Airlines alone has cut 35 daily round-trips from its Newark hub.

United’s CEO said the final straw was when ~20% of air traffic controllers “walked off the job”—including at least five now on 45-day stress leave—after a 90-second radar outage led to “dozens of diverted flights.”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the FAA plans to hire 2,000 new controllers this year. But with a 3,000-controller shortfall and 18+ months of training for new hires, the runway to recovery appears long.

Spiritual Perspective:  The unpredictability of manmade systems reminds us of God’s steadiness and consistency. Our true security isn’t found in any infrastructure of this world, but in Christ and the promise of the Kingdom to come.

“‘For I will create new heavens and a new earth… The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like cattle, but the serpent’s food will be dust! They will not do what is evil or destroy on my entire holy mountain,’ says the Lord.” Isaiah 65:17, 25

God bless you & may this future promise encourage you today, Pastor Larry