Something that has come up a lot lately has been the issue of pride. The main thing that stood out to me was the part at the end where the misfit shoots her and says "She would have been a good woman had he had someone there to shoot her every day." We talked in class about her head being cleared right before he shot her - she came to some sort of realization. She realized that she was the same as him. She had been living her life in this sort of bubble where her and her family were "good people." This experience humbled her. It took someone putting a gun to her to make her get to that point. The misfit's statement about needing someone to shoot her every day reminds me of Paul saying he had a "thorn in his side." It is the analogy of having something there to remind you, in Paul's case, of your need of a Savior. She needed this thorn in her side. Too bad it had to come at the end of her life in the form of a gun.
I commented on "Invisible Grace?"
It's funny, this passage came up tonight at church. I thought about this same thing, about how we need someone to keep us accountable. It is sad but true that it took her having a near death experience to realize this.
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