Living...
Life can take you places you never knew existed— And you don't even have to leave home.
It's been years since I've read the story of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a James Thurber short story from 1939.
That story made me smile and wonder how many of us have secret lives where we can be the hero/heroine in our times.
There is another saying that goes “Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay. –” Attributed to R. Zaccharias
Sin is like that. It is attractive and looks good on the outside, but once it has its claws into a person sin ceases to hold the same appeal.
Just as in my story of my Jamaica trip where we were helping a congregation putting the roof on their building, where a team member and I were laying and tying rebar.
I am afraid of heights, and I told Mr. Jerry, "If you'd have told me I would one day be helping put a roof on a building in Jamaica, I would have told you that you were a liar...chief of liars."
Mr. Jerry laughed, he said, "I always figured I'd die in some dive on a Caribbean Island." (Dive of course is an archaic reference to a cheap bar.)
Two lives, one a retired Marine, and me? A jack of all trades, better known as 'primitive artist—wife, mother, and whatnot'. Both sinners saved by the blood of Jesus, for better.
