Books are scarce in the world. They are illegal in some provinces. They are not easily replaced, if not impossible to replace if lost in many if not most circumstances. If you can replace a book or buy one, it is usually through the black market at astronomical costs that you cannot afford. Yet you have been able to maintain one of the best collections in the world. If your entire library was about to burn up and you could only have one* book to take with you other than the Bible, what would that be and why?”
OK! I would take 
Why? Well, to me it is just so thought-provoking, and is the story of a man who seemed to possess all of the qualities that I admire. From nowhere, to the elite SAS.
Distinguished service. Here meeting HM The Queen after the Iranian Embassy Siege.
Turned to God;
And became Padre to the SAS;
Outside Hereford Cathedral just after being Ordained.
Married with young children, and then - he tops himself!
My gosh. There really is much to ponder in Frank Collins’s story. Previously a man of supreme courage….”I walk towards the bushes. They are 300 metres away, across open ground. In them lurks a terrorist. His gun is trained on me, his finger ready to make the tiny movement necessary to kill a man. And that man is me.”
So what on earth makes such a man’s man take his own life, leaving a young wife and family? Yea. Much to ponder.
Meme set by MacNoddy.
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