Frances L. Lewis

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Inept at Making a Decision or Just Plain Beached? 

      Blog waters may be frigid as Alaskan streams, or they may be Waikiki warm, so here we go! Let’s jump in every Monday. 
      Many of you have read or heard about the guy near Chicago who received a transfer letter to Hawaii from his employer, the Federal Aviation Administration. He was so upset that he attempted to set the FAA radar center where he worked on fire.Does that not seem a little odd to you? He did not want to leave, but he decided to burn it down. Agreeably, all of us have had bad days at the office when we said we hated the place. Few of us, however, would remodel our floor by fire, or in this fellow’s case, the corner of the basement. You have to feel a teensy bit sorry for him, for while he planned horrible things, thankfully, he was just plain inept at them.   

      First, he did not know a good thing when he saw one. Give me a choice between a basement in Chicago or any beach on any Hawaiian isle in October, and I will be gone so fast, it will make your swimsuit spin. Second, paramedics, searching for him, found at least two places where he tried to destroy wires, possibly with a knife. It seems he didn't remember the childhood rule, “Don’t play with sharp objects," for upon attempting to cut the wires he cut himself.

      The execution of his plan did not improve for his bloody trail led them to a gas can, burned towels and a suitcase. Maybe the suitcase was for making a clean getaway, since he had brought towels to mop up any mess.It seems he was not too good at setting fires, either.  Still, the bloody trail continued. Next, they found a lighter, and two knives. Obviously, he knew better than to play with matches. But he had no sense of fashion whatsoever. They found him without a shirt and trying to slit his throat. OK. I take that back about fashion. Maybe, he just did not want to get blood stains on his clothes. Apparently, he did not know about stain removers. He probably was not a winner at board games, either, because the authorities knew it was him with a knife, no, two knives, and a lighter, with a gas can in the basement. They will probably throw the book at him, as they rightly should, and as inept as he is, it will probably hit him.

      It is easy for us to make fun of this poor schmuck. How many of us, though, are guilty of the all-out evade, pretend we can not hear, or have an all-out hissy fit when God asks us to move. Hmmm…
So here’s three questions for you —has God ever moved you physically or mentally, and did you shout “Yes” or “No?”   How was the situation in six months? 

                         Afraid of the waves you can not see? 
                                           
Eltagouri, Marwa. Walberg, Matthew, “Man Suspected in Chicago Fires Left Note, Tried Suicide, “ The Chicago Tribune. 28 September 2014. Belleville News- Democrat, Belleville, Illinois. A9

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