Three Rights Make a Left

This week I am writing from the second largest Paris in the world. Paris, Texas. It is the last time I will write this column on my old laptop. I have had my HP for over three years and it was used when I got it. When I first started doing disaster relief work I was in Prescott, Arizona when my previous laptop died. I have told the story before that I went to a pawn shop in downtown Prescott and found an honest pawnbroker. I told him I had a handgun for trade. It was an inexpensive hand cannon, a double barrel 410 shotgun Derringer. It was the perfect weapon if you ever got carjacked far from home, but I didn’t think that was likely driving a van with the churches’ logo on the side, so I decided I needed a laptop worse. The pawnbroker traded me the best laptop in the store for the pistol. Some time later there was a fire in Yarnell, AZ where 19 firefighters from Prescott lost their lives. When I was there I thought about that pawnbroker and said a prayer of blessing for him and his generosity. I coordinated that disaster and dozens more with this laptop and I have written this column for three years on it. It’s hard to believe but on March the 1st birthday I will have written this column for five years.

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