On January the US Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart seventy-three seconds after takeoff In a speech of comfort to the nation President Reagan quoted from the poem ldquo High Flight rdquo in which John Gillespie Magee a World War II pilot had written of ldquo the high untrespassed sanctity of space rdquo and the sense of putting out his hand to touch ldquo the face of God rdquo nbsp Although we can rsquo t literally touch God rsquo s face we sometimes experience a stunning sunset or a place of meditation in nature that gives us an overwhelming sense that [... more]