Where's Your Refuge?

     A six-foot-long alligator growled and flashed his teeth at Duane and me from a pond on an Island off the coast of Alabama recently. If he’d attacked, I’d have scrambled up a tree, which is what this magnificent oak tree is known for. Locals call it the Goat Tree, because in the island’s past, wild goats scrambled into it to take shelter from roaming alligators.     
     Don’t we all face “alligators” at one time or another? Health issues that sneak up on us. Bosses that growl at us. ...