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We have all occasionally experienced two choice days: one Heaven is preparing us not punishing us. The other choice, Heaven enjoys watching us suffer (after all He did allow his Son to be humiliated, tortured, and crucified).
Some of us are not blessed with Faith and have to work for our Faith everyday. Having spent much of my life in security matters involving intelligence or investigations executive protection; I understand that fractions of seconds and or tiny portions of one breath can determine the difference between returning home and having one’s body parts left on walls, sidewalks, or dirt streets.
Your author started in the intelligence industry in October 1968 at age of nineteen and pursued a career that more or less came to an end in October 2006. My departure from my devotion resulted from a series of disabling strokes. Having said it before, explaining not complaining my problem not yours.
Pilgrims are not likely to understand that having spent almost forty years in an industry that depends on self reliance could create an attitude that barely existing and depending on others is not living.
Guess that is why I sometimes think that maybe I should have been a fraction slower on one of my earlier high risk assignments. Not self pity, rather just a two choice day where stumbling through life on luck like a pilgrim or fool is not life’s primary objective.
Not quite ready to check out yet.
