God Is Everywhere

Clay Duke calmly walked into a Bay Dale District, Florida school board meeting and walked to the podium.  He then turned around, pulled out a can of red spray paint, painted a "V" with a circle around it, pulled out a gun, and started shooting and shouting.  He claimed his wife, whom he didn't name, had been fired from the district.  The board and superintendant were totally clueless.  Some claimed that even Mr. Duke didn't know what he was talking about.  Perhaps Mr. Duke was mentally ill.

The amazing thing in all this is that there were at least two times in the whole situation when Duke had perfect shots to kill two people, but either didn't take the shot, or for some unknown reason, missed.  The first time happened when school superintendent Bill Husfelt, who bravely said that the decision to fire Duke's wife was his alone, stood up in front of him.  Duke took a couple of shots at him.  Both shots missed.  Duke then took several other shots, shots that missed everyone else in the room.

The second time happend right after the first.  Board member Ginger Littleton, seeing one last chance to distract, or perhaps disarm Duke, took a swing at his arm with her large, brown pocketbook.  Think some little old lady who is being mugged wapping her mugger upside his head with her bag.  Ms. Littleton falls to the floor.  Duke turns to her, levels the gun at her, calls here a "stupid [female dog]," but doesn't take the shot.  He would have had a perfect, point blank shot, and Ms. Littleton could have easily been dead.

In a post-event interview with Fox News, Mr. Husfelt said that when Duke was standing before him, getting ready to shoot him, he felt "God was standing in front of [him]."  That is some powerful stuff.  In this season of preparing for Christ's birth, we should remember that when we accept Christ as our personal savior, we get the shield and protection of the Holy Spirit.  I encourage everyone who has doubts about where they will end up when they die to read the Bible and learn about Jesus and remember that he loves you and will always be there for you no matter what.  In the immortal words of the poem, "when you saw only one set of footprints, that is when I carried you."