I want to pose a situation for you. It is a situation that the esteemed writer Frederick Buechner had to confront.  He writes about it in his book, The Sacred Journey. Ask yourself how you would have handled the same situation.  Buechner had been looking forward to an evening with his mother.  They didn’t get to see each other as much as they wanted, so when she invited him over for a nice meal, he gladly accepted. 

As he and his mother sat down to eat, he received an urgent call.  A colleague needed Buechner’s help.  This colleague’s parents and pregnant sister had just suffered a serious car accident, and the doctors didn’t give them much hope.  The colleague was waiting at the airport for a flight to take him to his family, and he desperately needed comfort at that moment.  Would Buech…