Emphasis Preaching Journal

"Be prepared for anything," her father must have told her, because he saw to it that his elementary-school-aged daughter learned the art of self-defense. By the time she enrolled in senior high school, she had a third-degree black belt in karate. Unfortunately for the three young men from the dark side of the force, fellow classmates of hers, that preparedness was not well known. So, when they harassed her on the sidewalk one day after school, she systematically took them out, one after another, using the moves she had learned and honed. She walked on home, unharmed.