June 2, 2006

• unequal

  Del Gaudio said he made a tough call after a roadside bomb killed four of his men in April. While securing the scene, he was shot at by a machine gun in a follow-up attack. When he aimed his weapon to return fire, he saw that the gunmen had a line of children standing in front of them and two men filming with video cameras. He held fire until the children moved out of the way but was shot in his hand, which was only inches from his face. "Restraint almost cost me my life," he said.

  Wow.

  What can you call dedication like that, which strives to "do the right thing" while being physically attacked and being villified in one's own country's newspapers?

  Heroism, I guess.  True patriotism.

   

  Meanwhile, the endless flow of questions continues in my own mind.  Lately I've been thinking/wondering a lot about heaven and rewards and christian-motivation and prayer, and why God doesn't answer it sometimes.  And fatherhood - why does a father (or a Father) sometimes allow pain into the child's life, 'unwillingly' yet deliberately, in hope/expectation of a far greater end result?  I guess I've answered my own question there.

  If you haven't been keeping up with the discussion about history and the resurrection , you may wish to do so!!  It's still smoking, thanks to several enthusiastic visiting participant-commenters.

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