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Issue No. 7 QUESTIONS
For the Questions issue we are turning our focus from the outside world and bringing it inward. Each day for 100 days we will step out into the world and meet with one person. We will ask each person we meet the same 12 questions. At the end of 100 days we hope to capture our collective voice within this interwoven web of dialog.
Day 8: Deborah Baker
What do you do for a living?
I’m a security guard
What do you do to feel alive?
Interact with people. Talk to them. Get to know about them. I love life. I love nature. Most of all I love God.
A lesson you learned from your mother:
To love people regardless of color, creed and nationality. She loved everyone. She was a good soul and a good mother.
A lesson you learned from your father:
Same thing, but he said “be a realist – enjoy life, but be real.”
What’s the most beautiful thing you saw today?
Everything. Just looking at my surroundings – nature, the animals, the stars this morning when I got to work – God’s creation.
What’s one thing you wouldn’t want anyone to take away from you?
My love
What thought would you like to never have again?
I would never want to think of not accepting God into my life.
If you could become an inanimate object what would it be?
A star
When do you feel most loved?
When people smile back at me and when I’m with my grand kids
If your life were to end tomorrow what would be left undone?
I still haven’t served God like I could. I also haven’t traveled. I want to travel and see the world before I leave here.
What global issue would you take on if you didn’t have to worry about how?
Hunger, poverty and sickness
What’s the scariest thing that ever happened to you?
Oh God! Me, my mother and my little brother were driving to the pharmacy one day and as we were passing over a bridge – it was raining and drizzling – the tires started to spin out of control. We broke the railing of the bridge and we were about to go over into the water. I cried out “Oh God please save us!”, and I swear I could feel the hand of God like a magnet . Somehow we spun back onto the pavement. We were safe. I never take life for granted.