That's a great question, Brother! I have a great answer too!
Guns are for what is called a sudden emergency. Many sudden emergencies happen so quickly that there's no time to pray, only react. I carry. Believe me Brother, there's plenty of room left for faith even with a gun. I have more faith in God than guns. But still...so I do.
I had a service call one cold day the furnace wasn't working. It was 55 degrees in that house. They needed heat bad. It was getting colder. But every time they tried to turn it on it would immmediately blow the low voltage fuse. Not too big of a deal. That's what I do. SO I get my meter out and go to work looking for the direct short. I could not confirm a direct short anywhere and I tested every single wire on the unit.
Maybe it was that harness. Install new fuse and test it. Boom. Blew the fuse. All I could do is guess where it might be. Well, about 10 low voltage fuses later, I gave up. I only had a couple fuses left and I needed them! So I buttoned it back up and put all the wires place again and as I thought what am I going to tell this customer? And I'm putting my tools away and prayed about it. I said, Lord these people need heat? Make this thing work. If I don't fix it, my boss and the company look bad, the customer left cold, I look bad....Lord fix this! You get the glory, they get heat, my boss and his company were well represented, and I look professional to my boss...Everybody wins if you can just fix this Lord...
I had put one last new low voltage fuse in the unit before putting the cover on, but I didn't turn on the switch because I knew it would blow. After that the prayer. Ans just as I was finishing packing up the homeowner comes down and without saying anything just reaches out and flips the power switch on!
And it fired right up real smooth and didn't pop the fuse. He's like oh you finally got it, good. And I'm like, uh yeah glad I could help. I remember it was a fervant prayer. Oh it was cold and I really wanted to get it going for them. To this day I do not know exactly where it was. But I know how it got fixed! (PTL!)