PrintThe Peril of the Pendulum.
9 May, 2013
It is often the case that when we want to correct a mistake, we over-correct it. I took my daughter flying some years ago and, at an appropriate time in the flight, I suggested she might put her hands on the controls and get a feel for what it was like to fly. Immediately the nose of the aircraft began to dip and I explained she could correct that by pulling back on the "steering wheel" (as she called it). The nose of the aircraft came up. Quickly!! I then said that she had pulled back too far and too fast so she now needed to push the steering wheel forward preferably before the stall warning sounded. The nose of the aircraft now went down. Quickly!! Well, she soon got the idea and was able to keep the aircraft straight and level.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY: When we realise that correction is needed, our tendency will be to over-correct and we will need to make allowance for that possibility. It may be true in your family. It may be true in your Church. I recall one Pastor saying that whenever they had a breakthrough in their church, the tendency was to "rush to the other side of the aircraft" where the action was, thereby putting the aircraft in danger, so to speak. In their haste to embrace the 'new thing' they overcorrected and it took a while for them to bring about the balance that did not exclude the best parts of what had been in favour of the new thing.
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