The Lord Works in Mysterious Weblogs. Two years ago, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Ron Martz was embedded as a journalist in Iraq when two soldiers travelling with him were shot. He wrote a first-person column that thanks God for providing him with human shields:
I prefer to believe it was the hand of God that put them there, one
behind me, one to my left. They were there to protect me. ...
Had they not been there, I most likely would not be now typing this.
Less than 30 minutes after the two soldiers joined me, both were
wounded by bullets that could have hit me. The soldier behind me was
hit in the left wrist and the left eye by a bullet that struck the side
of the armored personnel carrier and shattered. A bullet hit the
soldier to my immediate left in the right arm, just a few inches from
my left arm. The bullet broke his arm, entered his body just below his
armpit and came out his back.
This kind of reductive, God-picked-sides reasoning creeps me out, whether it's a journalist crediting God for bullets hitting someone else or a quarterback who thanks God in victory but never makes Him catch Hell in defeat.
Because I leave comments open on Workbench, the discussion of Martz's column has become a debate between his current and former wives, now that Cynthia Martz has dropped by:
Mary Warren is Ron Martz's current wife. No wonder she supports him!
As his ex-wife of 25+ yrs. I think I know Ron Martz a bit better.
Though I don't know which one is the better authority on Martz, I know who to thank for sending Cynthia to my weblog. [Workbench]
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