He had suffered a moment of cowardice during the Iraq Conflict, subsequently went AWOL. He was, inside himself, embarrassed, despite the fact that his commanders took a rosier view of the matter, and granted him an Honorable Discharge.
He had, due to logistics, missed out on the usual starting of a family, but in time, he took up with a fatherless family and loved them as his own. He had found a group of people near his same point in the path of life, but a group that needed a father and husband, when he so much felt the need to be a father and a husband.
The sin-debt of cowardice bore down on him like the massive pressure on a giant dam, as of thousands of pounds, or pounds uncounted, constantly pushing against the earthen wall.
But something unexpected happened.
Through regular old toil and the odd moments with his loved ones, in a thousand little ways, he worked his penance, as if were a Catholic instead of a Southern Baptist.
The sin-debt weighed on him all his life, such that he didn't notice that one day, his spirit had went from caterpillar to butterfly. The sin-debt was gone, but maybe it was his own consciousness of the prior sin-debt, just a bad memory, that kept him pushing forward in his life.
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