jay_merrill
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Re: Rough week for me - Prayer requests
The thing that always gets me is the randomness of it all. One minute a bunch of kids are having fun, the next a couple of words get said and the next, someone has died. At my age, I'd think this fact of life would have sunk in but it hasn't.
I have a fishing buddy who is about 25 years younger than I am. I think he thinks of me as a father figure and we manage to go out to snag a few Redfish and Specs every now and again. Several years ago, he was living with a woman who's ex-BF picked a fight with him and then stabbed him with a screwdriver through a lung, into his heart. Believe it or not, he survived - he has a scar that looks like a heart bypass scar, from being cut open to repair the damage, but he lived to tell about the incident. What is even more amazing is that this same young man used to deal drugs and was shot by a rival six times, also living through the experience. First, there is the cruel irony of a young guy who was living fast, went to jail for a few years because of that, cleaned his act up and got a job, etc. and then darn near lost his life over jealously. Add to that just how amazing it is that his version of "randomness" is that he is alive insted of being dead, as one would expect. I tell him that someone is watching over him and that he has more lives than a damn cat!
The thing that always gets me is the randomness of it all. One minute a bunch of kids are having fun, the next a couple of words get said and the next, someone has died. At my age, I'd think this fact of life would have sunk in but it hasn't.
I have a fishing buddy who is about 25 years younger than I am. I think he thinks of me as a father figure and we manage to go out to snag a few Redfish and Specs every now and again. Several years ago, he was living with a woman who's ex-BF picked a fight with him and then stabbed him with a screwdriver through a lung, into his heart. Believe it or not, he survived - he has a scar that looks like a heart bypass scar, from being cut open to repair the damage, but he lived to tell about the incident. What is even more amazing is that this same young man used to deal drugs and was shot by a rival six times, also living through the experience. First, there is the cruel irony of a young guy who was living fast, went to jail for a few years because of that, cleaned his act up and got a job, etc. and then darn near lost his life over jealously. Add to that just how amazing it is that his version of "randomness" is that he is alive insted of being dead, as one would expect. I tell him that someone is watching over him and that he has more lives than a damn cat!
