A few months ago, a dear friend of mine made the following comment in a conversation, "We are not promised tomorrow." There have been many deaths in my life this year, both in my biological family and in my extended social circle.  The unexpected nature of some of that death motivated my friend to make this statement.  At first, I found this comment to have a poetic truth to it, and I even repeated it later in a conversation about the emotions present when dealing with the aftermath of my father's passing.

I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well Psalms 139:14 NKJV.

A divided enemy is easier to conquer

I spent the majority of my time in the military as a Psychological Operations Specialist.  The simplest way of describing what we did in PSYOP is that we used information to change the attitudes and actions of a specific group of people.  While I was in Iraq, we used the skills we were taught to increase the utilization of the emergency response system (like the 911 system here in the US), encourage the people to turn in the peo