Anyone could do that!

which was supposedly not going to bleed much.
However, as my friends tried to hold the pig
while I attempted to cut the notches in the ears,
the pig jerked, causing me to cut a big hunk out
of the poor pig’s ear! Blood went everywhere!
The girls in the front row screamed and one
fainted. The pig got loose, and while slipping
and sliding on the blood on the floor, instead
of catching it, I knocked over a desk. It was
pandemonium!
Later, after being man-handled by my
teacher to the principal’s office, the principal
simply said, “Doug, you are nothing but trouble.
You can’t even give a speech without causing a
problem!”
Yes, I was trouble then, and as I became
older, I became even worse in violence,
thievery, and drunkenness. But praise God for
His grace, when at age 21 someone shared
with me the Good News of Salvation in Christ
and in Him alone, and I turned to Christ in
simple repentance and faith. Someone said,
“No one is so bad that he is beyond grace’s
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