Last week a lobster fisherman off the coast of Provincetown MA, had to dive overboard to attend to one of his traps on the ocean floor. He felt a big thud. His vision goes dark, then realizes he's inside a whale. He thinks this is the end for him, his thoughts go to his teenage sons and wife. In the mean time the whale sucked up something he didn't want in his maw. So he headed to the surface to spit him out. Easier to spit him out in the air than trying to do it under water. The divers deck mate witnessed him expunged from the humpback whales maw. The whole episode took a minute. And one lucky man that had a tale to tell.
This guy got a second chance the same that happened for the biblical Jonah. Jonah was tasked by God to go to the city of Nivanea to tell the inhabitants to repent their sins. Jonah thought twice about it. He said to himself oh no not doing that so he headed off in a different direction. He boarded a boat and tried to put as much distance between him and Nivanea as possible. Several days out on the sea clouds started to pile up on the horizon. Oh oh said the sailors were in for it. The storm hit hard, the sailors said this storm was way more severe than they ever encountered in their lives. Jonah said I'm the cause throw me over, they said no way. The sailors were still having a hard time rowing and no relief on the horizon. So they gave Jonah the ole heave ho. Jonah was trying to stay on the surface the best he could til a whale breached the surface and swallowed him up. For 3 days and nights he was trapped inside. But he was protected against the storm. Jonah prayed to God and told God he would do as commanded by God. God then had the whale spit him out near shore. Jonah delivered the message to the town. The town did listen to Jonah and did a 180 surrendering it's evil ways.
These 2 stories are about second chances. What would you do with your second chance ?
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