EVIL

Snippet

There were so many victims of Crime, she thought.  So many friends, relatives, and family members on the periphery of evil.     C.J. Box The Highway St. Martins press pg 250 2013

Scripture

keep your tongue from evil

and your lips from telling lies.

Turn from evil and do good;

seek peace and pursue it.

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,

and his ears are attentive to their cry; Psalms 34:13-15

Song

"Copperhead Road" STEVE EARLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk

Well my name's John Lee Pettimore

Same as my daddy and his daddy before

You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here

He only came to town about twice a year

He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line

Everybody knew that he made moonshine

Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad

He headed up the holler with everything he had

It's before my time but I've been told

He never came back from Copperhead Road

Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge

Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge

Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side

Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside

Well him and my uncle tore that engine down

I still remember that rumblin' sound

Well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night

Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right

He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load

You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday

They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway

I done two tours of duty in Vietnam

And I came home with a brand new plan

I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico

I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road

Well the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air

I wake up screaming like I'm back over there

I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know

You better stay away from Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Sentence Prayer

Father:

When evil ones try to knife me in the back,

    make them look foolish.

Frustrate all those

    who are plotting my downfall and your kingdoms downfall.

Make Evil One like cinders in a high wind,

    with God’s angel working the bellows.

Make their road lightless and mud-slick,

    with God’s angel on their tails.

Out of sheer cussedness they set a trap to catch me;

    for no good reason they dug a ditch to stop me.

Surprise them with your ambush—

    catch Evil doers in the very trap they set,

    the disaster they planned for me.  Amen

Based on the Message Ps 35:4-8