Next Redux

 I reiterate, not really repeat lol.  The time and place jibe.

My friend had many misfortunes.  Once successful, he had literally dwindled.

He suffered a monumental car accident, which damaged his physical health.  Moreso, it planted a seed of despair and cynicism.

His business dwindled and he lost his wife in divorce, along with property and the long built company/work he had built.  

his children suffered.  One was profoundly mentally challenged as we say today.  Another was mild and his daughter struggled with self worth.

Attack after attack mad him not just cynical, but jaded and decadent.

He turned his back on his leadership at church, wandering from day to day.

Yet there was a part of him that clung to life.

He taught me how to housepaint, which allowed me to partially earn my way through college.  

He encouraged me to serve, even when he had backed off.

In his cups, he would ask what's next.

I said to him don't because it only invites more negativity.  Expecting misfortune invites it.  

He's gone and I hope he's in the Light.

A plan demands moments or segments, drwan together to complete it.

Organize.  Piece by piece.

Then what's next is the next part of a plan.

It will invite success.

PS: Don't be drawn out seemingly alone.  The fallen try to fill us with despair, to make us feel alone.

We are never alone.  That Plan is next.  The plan to endure and complete one's work.