A Soulful Journey

During field training exercises in So. Carolina, one drill instructor threw a pine cone among recruits and yelled, “Grenade!” The trainees immediately turned away and hit the ground. “Just as I suspected,” chided the drill Sargant.  “Not a hero among you” Didn’t anyone want to jump on that grenade to save the others?”  A little later the instructor threw another pinecone and yelled, “Grenade!” This time, all the recruits but one jumped on the ‘explosive.’ “Why are you still standing there?” the instructor demanded of the standing man. “Sir,” the recruit replied, “someone had to live to tell about it.” -Rabbi Toba August Not everyone can be a hero.  What we can be is true to ourselves.

“In the Marine Corps, I was a public-affairs officer assisting the recruiting effort in North Carolina, I asked a young Marine who was re-enlisting why he was returning to the Corps.  “There’s no one in charge on the outside,” he explained.    - Paul Sarokin Reader’s Digest It is vital that we always remember there is a God and there is someOne in charge.