MountainWings A MountainWings Moment
#8106 Wings Over The Mountains of Life



The Pay Stub
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Divorce is never pleasant.
It is even less pleasant when it is caused by infidelity.

While experiencing a great deal of stress due to legal
proceedings and the ensuing division of property issues, I had a
MountainWings Moment.

My particular issue at the time was with my now ex-wife and me.
She wanted a new life with someone else and the issue concerned
the equitable distribution of my compensatory time.

Well, without any proof of what comp time I had accumulated
prior to our marriage, the split would be legally 50/50. That's
fine I thought, for even though I had worked hard for that time
prior to our ill-fated marriage, I would just chalk it off to my
poor judgment.

Besides, the records of the city I worked for did not go back
far enough to reflect my pre-marital comp time.

I resisted bitterness to this perceived unfairness. Yet I
searched high and low, to no avail for some proof of my pre-
marital comp-time records. All in the pursuit of fairness or
maybe revenge.

I knew that God does not involve Himself with our worldly
matters, or does He sometimes?

A thought given to me led me to a locker in a city police
station I had not been assigned to in 11 years. While I had not
used this locker for so long, my lock still secured it.

I was led there, to that locker. But first I stopped at the
nearby fire station to borrow bolt cutters as I had long
forgotten the combination to the lock.
I knew I was being led here for a Godly reason.

The bolt cutters were not needed as the 3-number combination I
had forgotten was still legible above an adjacent locker where I
had scrawled it years before.

What I was to find was still unknown to me.

On an eye-level shelf under a fine layer of dust sat a cigar box
holding a collection of confiscated knives and brass knuckles
taken from miscreants when I was a street cop.
But what lie behind that box meant so much more.

There were two pay stubs. From 15 years that I used that
locker, there were but two.

One was from the exact month and year my failed marriage
commenced, reflecting the comp time I had earned before I
married, thereby giving me my fairness in the matter.

The other was my pay stub for the end of that year, maybe God
figured that was for my taxes.

Only two pieces of paper were behind that cigar box.
And yes, despite objections that the pay stub was a computer
generated counterfeit document, it was allowed in.

And my attorney who shakes his head with a wry grin is that
much closer to believing that God works in them who believe in
Him.

~A MountainWings Original by Mark W. Turcanik, Cleveland, Ohio~

From The Mountain:
Divorce is never pleasant for either party. Divorce is
psychologically rated as the second most traumatic event in
life, only death of a spouse is more traumatic.

Before you marry, make sure your parents approve.
That one piece of advice carries a lot of weight and may save
you a tremendous amount of headache even if you do think it’s
old-fashioned.

If you are married... well, that’s a future MountainWings Issue.

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