For my seventy-two-year-old body to have survived all the trauma it did was enough to make me ask why God had spared me. Certainly my life was not saved so that I could turn away from the hard thoughts and relax into the easy ones. Certainly my life was not saved so that I could armor myself with self-protection and avoid controversial subjects that might antagonize some people if those subjects are ones which I believe God wants me to address. It’s often said that Americans want to be loved and are upset when people of other nations resent and even hate us, and I guess I’m American that way,
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