The Devil's Due
Redemption
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The waitress brought the check and as Robert was getting up from the table he said, “Ray, I don’t know if you’re a praying man or not, but I’ve always gotten good help in making my decisions by talking to the Man upstairs.”
That night, before going to bed, Ray prayed. He was only going to ask for guidance in making a decision about using the assumed name, but as he called on God, he felt a spiritual presence in the room. He suddenly, and urgently, felt the need to pray for the souls of the six men he had killed, and for forgiveness for taking their lives. For over an hour he prayed, naming one-by-one, the things he could remember that he had done wrong, asking for forgiveness for each one. He asked for divine guidance in making everyday decisions, and especially in deciding what to do with the money, which was still hidden in the trunk of the old Ford back at the ranch.
He fell asleep that night with a peace of mind that he hadn’t known since boyhood, and dreamed about Olivia. The next morning his clock radio came on to the mellow voice of Hovie Walker singing, “Keep on knocking and the door will open; keep on searching and you shall find...,” and he knew it would be a good day.
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Ray Gentry loved airplanes from the time he was a boy, watching the old biplanes dusting cotton fields near his home in Tennessee. After college, he became a military pilot, flying in Vietnam, and later took a job as a sprayer pilot in the Mississippi Delta. It was his insatiable love for flying, however, that eventually led him to make a fateful decision with disastrous consequences for himself and those he loved. His compromise to make a “one-time flight” to Central America would lead him deep into the dark world of drug smuggling, murder, and corruption in high places. It seemed he would spend the rest of his life paying the Devil’s due. God had a different plan! Ray’s flight to redemption would begin, ironically, with a deadly plane crash and a suitcase full of dirty money. With ruthless and relentless pursuers never far behind, there would be strategic stops across the lower forty-eight and Alaska. With the help of godly people along the route and a salty old bush pilot, who convinced him prayer was his answer, Ray reaches a stunning destination complete with a new flight plan and mission for life!
About the Author
Howard Goode’s love for flying has driven him to a variety of flying jobs: crop dusting, charter flying, and pilot for a sheriff’s department. His career also included air traffic controller, teacher and writer for the Federal Aviation Administration, and managing editor of a newspaper. Now retired, he lives a quite life on a small farm near Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.