Jerks
Three times now I’ve developed coping mechanisms to deal with all this, and three times I’ve allowed myself to be swallowed up in them. The first one could have easily cost me my marriage, the second one; all self-respect. The third one nearly cost me my job and with it my mind. What starts out as a justifiable way to deal with things that can’t be made sense of, quickly turns into a world view that commands your reason and twists your perspective. In each instance, I find myself in places and situations that in a moment of lucidity are shocking even to myself. “How did it come to this”? I ask myself. Each time I wander the Good Shepherd gently nudges me back into the fold. Other times He lets me run into the fence, still other times, He waits till the wolves have their teeth in my flesh before he picks me up, saving me from certain destruction. I guess it’s true; He wants us to live life abundantly, why else would I be, in each in...