Over one hundred years ago tonight a marvel of modern technology laid in ruins at the bottom of the frigid North Atlantic. As a stunned world blinked in utter disbelief, the "ship not even God can sink" was sunk.
Decades of speculation drawn from the pieced-together stories of those who had survived tried to understand how the unthinkable could happen. There was no shortage of theories. It is only just recently that we have confirmation: the water-tight compartments would have kept Titanic afloat had she hit that iceberg head-on. But because there was an attempt to avoid a collision, the gigantic steamer scraped alongside the berg and a gash was torn open in her hull--a gash that breached across the technology that had been designed to save Titanic.
It's hard to imagine that a head-on collision would have saved Titanic--and the hundreds who sank with her. But then again, more than a few lives have been sunk in the desperate attempt to avoid life's obstacles.
Apparently even technology can't save us from the disaster that looms when we fail to face our problems head-on.
What are you avoiding today?
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