In Deuteronomy we read (32:10), "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye."
Sixteen years ago I was a man in a "waste howling wilderness." Given up by doctors, who said my heart had been damaged by repeated attacks, and refused dental work by a dental surgeon who feared that I would not survive if he pulled my tooth, I was unable to work, was without an adequate place to live, and was without savings.
I was a worldly man, given to smoking, drinking, gambling, swearing, and I had undesirable traits of character; but as I faced what I believed to be certain death, my greatest concern was for my two small children, who, it seemed, were about to be left without a human father and without adequate means to take care of them.
