It's all about TRUTH.

IT'S ALL ABOUT TRUTH
Location is determined by position
Evidence will vary by location.
Facts will change according to evidence.
But TRUTH is unchanging.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

No canaries for July, something else for a while

Normally, I'd give the Canary award, but it was a quiet July. So, I'm passing on it for now, and I will do a slightly different this time out.

I'm going to talk about my experiences with GOD. (Before you shut me off, I want you to understand -- this means my own evidence of the Existence of GOD, not face to face meetings. I'm not Moses, I've not been granted such a status as to be a prophet, Moses or Not, I am merely a messenger.

Today, (Monday the Second, Tuesday the third) I was in a bit of a debate with a self-proclaimed ATHEIST who is known as "Packard_Sonic" on Twitter. He started out, pretty much, with a similar statement to this "He's not coming back. It's been 2000 years. Get over it."

As a Christian, I felt obliged to speak up, and state my case on this topic.

Well, you can imagine this guy isn't really an "Atheist," but a very die-hard skeptic. He demands Proof... well I demand proof of life on other planets. I've never seen any, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I demand proof of AIR, in particular oxygen (And I think he would, too). I don't "SEE" any proof...but without oxygen, we'd be dead!

While P_S is claiming "Fables," I point out chariots (Which date from the time of Moses) which were found at the bottom of the Red (Actually REED) Sea. (RED, only because it reflects the mountains of Edom, and Edom means RED.)

While he thinks the Chariots could have been from a Capsized boat, I ask "Where's the wreckage?"

While P_S is great at twisting words, trying to rile me, I am going to point out my OWN EXPERIENCES... and while they probably won't convince him, It's my chance to witness.

So, Pack -- Read up, and I don't think you're going to be able to claim anything but Supernatural in some of these things. And THAT means "THE HAND OF GOD."

In 1972, on August 14th, some friends of mine and I were discussing the disappearance of the 5 avenger Torpedo Bombers (Slightly after WWII) and ONE Martin Mariner plane. All of a sudden, Roland (His real name) speaks something I wouldn't have expected. "I SEE A CROSS!"
We were sitting under a tree, he was looking at the ground...we stared at the ground. Nobody but Roland saw anything. There were no branches that could have made a cross shape. We dismissed it, (although we were young and very impressionable) and went swimming.
About 9 that night, the police came to our home. It seems that my Grandfather had passed away very close to the time that Roland had seen that cross on the beach. I didn't see the cross...but the idea made a mark.

Who's to remember all this, right? Well, a few years later, I started remembering dreams.
One was about a Crash that killed an entire sports team. I didn't recognize the team, but thought it may be professional. Only a few weeks later the entire Evansville Basketball team was killed in a crash. You might call it "Co-inky-dink." But this stuff continued.

Around this time,I dreamed of being in a "Church" -- which had odd rules. They'd tie you down, hold a light over your head...It made very little sense. Some people escaped the "church" just before it caught fire. Not long after, the Jonestown Massacre (or mass suicide, as you prefer) occurred, killin hundreds, plus a congressman.

Have you ever dreamed of a Calendar? I did. Twice, in fact. One date was circle on a 1979 Calendar. It was November 4th. What did it mean? I had no idea. Shortly after that, I had another Calendar dream -- Sunday, May 18th, circled in RED on a 1980 Calendar.

November 4th rolls around -- and there is a storming and seizing of the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran. And then, May 18th, 1980-- Mount St. Helens Explodes...What, more coincidence? Early in 1981, Another dream -- a Shuttle accident, killing all on board. Odd, since the Shuttle hadn't even really begun missions. It was only ENTERPRISE. Until, that is, January 28, 1986, when the Challenger blew up, killing all 7 aboard.

Sometime there after, I was shoveling walks and driveways to make extra money. I was shoveling a driveway, and it began to snow, HARD. It wasn't expected to let up for a couple of days. I noticed a hearing aid missing. I check the driveway I was working on, but NOTHING. I prayed! "Let me find it. Stop the snow until I do!" I knew the forecast: Heavy snow for 2 days. I prayed again, same words. Suddenly, the snow stopped. I kept looking for the Aid, but couldn't find it. I finally went home. The snow was still stopped. I started looking around the house, and finally spotted my aid on the floor, behind a waste basket. I picked it up, put it on...and only a few minutes later it started snowing again.

Shortly after the death of my father in 1995, I began having an "Inner voice" talking to me...or so it seemed. It was telling me to prepare for Mom's death. Ok, her health wasn't "Great." But every time we went to church, a voice would say "Yet (Number) times this scene shall be repeated, and then, no more." When we reached "0", that was it. The scene was never repeated. She was too weak to go to church any more. And only a few weeks later, when I failed to stop where she was that evening, she passed away. What was more frightening was that just a year and a half earlier, I told my dad to Get out of the hospital. The next day, he did...as a corpse.

In 1998, I was driving to work about to pass Elk River, MN. I saw what appeared to be a man in black, crossing the road. I slowed down because he paused in the middle of the road. But then, he vanished. Just a few days later, my brother-in-law died.

In 2001, in November, I saw the same vision, and did the same -- I received a call that day that my mother-in-law had suffered a heart attack, and was in the hospital. The next day, I saw the vision again. And the following Saturday, she passed away.

In 2007, I was unemployed. It was summer, storms are nothing new. I was watching the sky darken, and a cloud started rotating...Tornado on the way. My prayer was that it pass us. What happened? As a watched, a cloud formed under the cloud that was rotating. A funnel was coming down, but the cloud below it formed the shaped of a hand. Oh, how I wish I had been able to take a photo of that! The hand-shaped cloud kept the funnel from getting any lower....and the danger passed.

Later in the year, I was getting discouraged in my job hunt. I needed a sign, some sort of encouragement. I asked GOD for a bird of prey to land on a dead tractor we had...as some sort of sign that things would be OK then, that I'd have a job soon.

A day later,k I was going out to feed the horses, and saw a bald eagle on the tractor. It flew off, but only minutes later, I received a call from a potential job... and I GOT THAT JOB. I could not explain it, except that GOD had answered my call.

So, to Packard_Sonic -- Now you know WHY I BELIEVE that God exists, and that Christ will return. You can seek a sign -- but you must have a believing heart. Otherwise, it's like Christ himself said: "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign. Blessed is he who has not seen and yet believes."

Just remember: You and I cannot COMMAND God to do anything. We must pray in accordance to the wishes of His Son: "Thy Kingdom Come. Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven."

17 comments:

  1. WOW! Where to begin on this? You got so much wrong just out of the starting gate That I will have to address each of these one by one and have to set the record straight.

    1. I am an atheist. Not a self proclaimed atheist. Not just a skeptic. Many atheists are die-hard skeptics too.

    2. You talk about life on other planets, well as we know there isn't like like "US" out there that we have discovered yet. However bacteria, which is classified as a FORM of life had been discovered on our nearby planets. and As we are actively searching for other planets and have found many, and yet the bible never mentions that there are other planets out there does it?

    3. You felt you had to speak out, that is your right and I would never deny your right to speak your mind, however you felt that what I said needed to be stopped and there for you wanted to suppress my right to speak my mind. Plus if there is a god, do you think that if he was as powerful as you believe him/it to be, don't you think that even before I sent that out do you think he/it could have affected my hardware? How about just an old fashioned smiting! Did that happen? No. Again, no existence of a god. Just because you decided to speak up doesn't prove the existence of god either. All that proves is that you had an opinion, just like anyone else does. If you heard voices saying to do it, then you need medical treatment. But as you said you didn't at least you don't need to see a doctor anytime soon.

    4. You mentioned air, well your right you can't see air, but you can see it's effects and measure it and recreate the results over and over again! Something that can be tested! Imagine that! You can't do that with a god, if you can't measure a god it doesn't exist.

    5. The Red Sea, most theologians say that "mosses" didn't cross at the widest point but along the shoreline, which is known to be quite shallow. As for the chariots, as I said before that ships caring good could have been over turned, hijacked or been in battles that happened to have that cargo aboard. Theologians also know and admit to that the area is quite windy, so the threat of a boat AKA ship could be turned over in rough waters too. When I say ship in that term I don't mean the HUGE cargo ships like we have today, but much smaller water craft. They didn't have the needs like we do today and didn't have that cargo capacity to hold as much either. It even says on the page you redirected me to that it was "wheels" that were found, not a whole chariot. "I am 99.9 percent sure I picked up a chariot wheel," Peter Elmer NOTE he said wheel! Where is the wreckage of all the other chariots then? If you say well they devolved, then there is your answer to the missing ships AKA boats" too. Thats the cool thing about water, given enough time water will eat or dissolve anything. Science FACT! In the bible didn't the pharaoh send an armada after the jews? Then where are all the rest? Or did he just send one chariot to go after a population which is described in the bible? If he did he would have been a total fool to do so!

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  2. WOW! Where to begin on this? You got so much wrong just out of the starting gate That I will have to address each of these one by one and have to set the record straight.

    1. I am an atheist. Not a self proclaimed atheist. Not just a skeptic. Many atheists are die-hard skeptics too.

    2. You talk about life on other planets, well as we know there isn't like like "US" out there that we have discovered yet. However bacteria, which is classified as a FORM of life had been discovered on our nearby planets. and As we are actively searching for other planets and have found many, and yet the bible never mentions that there are other planets out there does it?

    3. You felt you had to speak out, that is your right and I would never deny your right to speak your mind, however you felt that what I said needed to be stopped and there for you wanted to suppress my right to speak my mind. Plus if there is a god, do you think that if he was as powerful as you believe him/it to be, don't you think that even before I sent that out do you think he/it could have affected my hardware? How about just an old fashioned smiting! Did that happen? No. Again, no existence of a god. Just because you decided to speak up doesn't prove the existence of god either. All that proves is that you had an opinion, just like anyone else does. If you heard voices saying to do it, then you need medical treatment. But as you said you didn't at least you don't need to see a doctor anytime soon.

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  3. 4. You mentioned air, well your right you can't see air, but you can see it's effects and measure it and recreate the results over and over again! Something that can be tested! Imagine that! You can't do that with a god, if you can't measure a god it doesn't exist.

    5. The Red Sea, most theologians say that "mosses" didn't cross at the widest point but along the shoreline, which is known to be quite shallow. As for the chariots, as I said before that ships caring good could have been over turned, hijacked or been in battles that happened to have that cargo aboard. Theologians also know and admit to that the area is quite windy, so the threat of a boat AKA ship could be turned over in rough waters too. When I say ship in that term I don't mean the HUGE cargo ships like we have today, but much smaller water craft. They didn't have the needs like we do today and didn't have that cargo capacity to hold as much either. It even says on the page you redirected me to that it was "wheels" that were found, not a whole chariot. "I am 99.9 percent sure I picked up a chariot wheel," Peter Elmer NOTE he said wheel! Where is the wreckage of all the other chariots then? If you say well they devolved, then there is your answer to the missing ships AKA boats" too. Thats the cool thing about water, given enough time water will eat or dissolve anything. Science FACT! In the bible didn't the pharaoh send an armada after the jews? Then where are all the rest? Or did he just send one chariot to go after a population which is described in the bible? If he did he would have been a total fool to do so!

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  4. Now for setting out the ogee boogie parts.

    1. Your sitting under a lone tree with no branches? and this was the ONLY tree around? The guy that said it, may have seen a casting of light from something else. and you said that the idea of it made a mark. You didn't see it, yourself, you heard it second hand. If you were to go to court with second had testimony like that, it would be thrown out as hearsay. As for you loosing your family member around that time, and I am sorry for your loss, but it is coincidence. If a bird land on your shoulder or dropped a load on you around the same time would you have conceded that a sign too or pure chance?

    2. Yea accidents happen. You said you had dream an entire sports dream died, then it happened. How many times had you dreamt that you won the lottery or a car was going to chance you down or who knows, did any of those things come true as well? I'd hedge a bet that it didn't. In this one instance you had a dream of something horrifying, and I'm guessing that you enjoy sports that is something on your mind a lot, and that thought invades your dreams. Not the hand of a god again.

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  5. 3. The Jonestown Massacre was tragic indeed. A. All churches have odd rules, as many can't agree when stuff should happen, you may or may not believe it but I have been to church before, so I know. So for now lets dismiss that. B. If you were alive at the time and aware of what was going on down there and hearing stories of the possible atrocities going on, of course your mind will wander there too and again invade your dreams. Again not the hand of a god.

    4. I have to say that dreaming of a calendar is got to be the most boring dream anyone could have. As with other forms of extrasensory perception, the existence of precognition is not accepted by the scientific community, because no replicable demonstration has been achieved. Specifically, precognition would violate the principle that an effect cannot occur before its cause. However, there are established biases, affecting human memory and judgment of probability, that can create a convincing but false impression of precognition.

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  6. 5. Weather is not predictable, and just because you "prayed" to stop and for a brief moment it might have, is not evidence. If you can do it multiple times with reproducible results then, you MIGHT have a basis for a fact, but as it only happened once its not fact. Again coincidence. I travel around a lot and see lots of weird weather patterns. I had to go from one city to one in another county, when I left the county I was it it stopped snowing right along the boarder of the county almost to a tea! Does that meant hat a god wanted it to only snow in the county I was living in?
    No. Its a weather event that just happens. Ever heard the tearoom wacky weather? I can name a lots sources on events like that I just described with even more sever weather too. You didn't notice the hearing aid missing sooner when you were in the house as it most likely was loose and in warmer conditions of your house it could have slipped out and bounced away. When you went outside, you "noticed" it missing. Which means you at some point touched your ear because of the cold or something went by and you noticed you didn't hear anything from that direction properly. You left out a lot of little facts, so making an accurate determination is difficult but not hard to figure out what happened based by your own words. So you finding your knocked out hearing aid at a moment you believe it started snowing again happened at the same time? Again, as you didn't notice your hearing aid falling out, I find it suspect that you were taking in everything happening around you at that moment, and it started snowing again from an unusual weather pattern that happened to be in your area, by the time you found it you then noticed it had already started snowing. But, the correlation between you loosing your hearing aid "indoors" and it stopping snowing "outdoors" are totally unrelated.

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  7. 6. Again I feel your pain and anguish of loosing your parents, as I too have lost mine as well. You said that you knew your mom was not in "great" health, you had it on your mind already. So you may have been mentally preparing for the invisibility. and guessed a number, which by pure chance you were very close on. The loss of your dad a year later is also not unremarkable. My dad died about 2 years after my mother passed away despite the fact that he as several years older than her and lived longer but not by much. The the obvious exceptions of accident, incurable disease, or genetic defect most peoples parents generally pass away within a time span near each other, again there are always exceptions to this. but this is is what generally happens.

    7. You don't mention what time of day that happened in. Again a trick of light or a shadow.

    8. You said you received a call about the in-law having a heart attack "then you had the vision again" Do you see where I'm going with that one? If not, let me spell it out to you. You again already had a even happen to you and you thought you saw something, so in your mind recreated this event to say ok another death could happen so you had it appear to you in your mind.

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  8. 8. Ahh… The pray away the tornado. Can you do that again? The people in Kansas would really like the help! Sorry I had to say that, but can you see how ridiculous that sounds? When tornados form they shoot around wildly and did I already mention that weather is weird. Tornados do and have been recorded doing all kinds of strange stuff. There are LOT of books with pictures in it of results of tornadic activity that is just weird and not the first time I had heard someone describe it as a hand. If a tornado were coming down on me like that I might see it as a hand too! Thats called emotional stress, and when under that kind of stress we see all kinds of things we want to see.

    9. Good grief! The bird stories now? A. You obviously live in an area where eagles live. Your chance to see one at that moment again coincidence. You said you had been actively hunting for a job and then one of the places you put a resume in decided to call you back. Pure happens chance. If you really wanted it to be a true god like activity, you didn't hunt for a job at ALL, then prayed for a job and then out of the blue a phone call came in and said we have a job for you! Results again not reproducible, not fact, pure happens chance.

    Yes I can see why you believe with a series of interesting coincidences that happened you think there is a god. So by that raining if I believe that a truck of money will come to my door and all my money problems will be over it will happen? No it wont happen by just believing.

    I don't seek signs, unless I'm looking for a restaurant when driving down the road.

    And the whole can't command god to do anything, your right you can't command something that doesn't exist to do anything either.

    Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

    God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom.

    If there's one thing that I hate more than prophecy, is self-fulfilling prophecy. ~ Bill Maher

    The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it ~ Terry Pratchet

    Again thank toy for making me use my brain! Something that Christians show time and time again not to do.

    Religion because, thinking is hard.

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  9. 8. Ahh… The pray away the tornado. Can you do that again? The people in Kansas would really like the help! Sorry I had to say that, but can you see how ridiculous that sounds? When tornados form they shoot around wildly and did I already mention that weather is weird. Tornados do and have been recorded doing all kinds of strange stuff. There are LOT of books with pictures in it of results of tornadic activity that is just weird and not the first time I had heard someone describe it as a hand. If a tornado were coming down on me like that I might see it as a hand too! Thats called emotional stress, and when under that kind of stress we see all kinds of things we want to see.

    9. Good grief! The bird stories now? A. You obviously live in an area where eagles live. Your chance to see one at that moment again coincidence. You said you had been actively hunting for a job and then one of the places you put a resume in decided to call you back. Pure happens chance. If you really wanted it to be a true god like activity, you didn't hunt for a job at ALL, then prayed for a job and then out of the blue a phone call came in and said we have a job for you! Results again not reproducible, not fact, pure happens chance.

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  10. Yes I can see why you believe with a series of interesting coincidences that happened you think there is a god. So by that raining if I believe that a truck of money will come to my door and all my money problems will be over it will happen? No it wont happen by just believing.

    I don't seek signs, unless I'm looking for a restaurant when driving down the road.

    And the whole can't command god to do anything, your right you can't command something that doesn't exist to do anything either.

    Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

    God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom.

    If there's one thing that I hate more than prophecy, is self-fulfilling prophecy. ~ Bill Maher

    The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it ~ Terry Pratchet

    Again thank toy for making me use my brain! Something that Christians show time and time again not to do.

    Religion because, thinking is hard.

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  11. Ok, let's go HERE, first, ok? I didn't say we were under a lone tree with no branches. I said that there were no branches that could form the shape of a Cross. Not in that shape. The smaller branches would have needed to be perpendicular to the Main Branch. I've never seen a tree that has that kind of set up. If you have a picture, I'd love to see one. But remember -- it would have to be an ASH, since it was an ASH TREE that we sat under.

    2) You say that I felt that I needed to stop your opinion. That's not exactly right, but I see how you reached the conclusion. It was not my intent to try to censor, but to address error (or more aptly, perceived error). Allowing error to perpetuate is itself an error. Can we agree on that?

    Now, Let me start with #1: To be an atheist, you have to state that God doesn't exist. But you are basing on what you see as lack of evidence. If the evidence showed up right in front of you, would you believe it? But even then, you need FAITH to say "God doesn't exist." I actually suspect that you are an agnostic (Who questions the existence of God) rather than an atheist (You DO say "Show me" which is actually an indication of a mind that isn't entirely closed.) By requesting a sign, you are indicating that you actually might believe that it is TRUE...but you simply are waiting for something you cannot refute. True, I hope you get that evidence.

    Now, for #2 (Copied from your post)
    You talk about life on other planets, well as we know there isn't like like "US" out there that we have discovered yet. However bacteria, which is classified as a FORM of life had been discovered on our nearby planets. and As we are actively searching for other planets and have found many, and yet the bible never mentions that there are other planets out there does it?

    I've not seen any info from NASA that shows any evidence of life (Even bacterium) on other planets. I hope you can give me a link to that. It's not that I don't believe that life could be elsewhere. I fully admit there could be life AS WE KNOW IT-- that includes bacteria, viruses, plants, or people. No, I doubt that it would be "Exactly" as we know it.
    As for the Bible not giving a number of planets, well -- the Bible uses the term "Like the sands of the sea." Not infinite, but a number to which we'd probably never be able to count.

    More to come...Want to keep these small.

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  12. OK, to continue: Red Sea.

    It is quite likely that more than one chariot would be on a ship. The ship would need to be more than 2 horses wide (About 5 feet)because chariots were not routinely disassembled. So, even if the ship was 20 feet wide, and 60 feet long, it still wouldn't carry many. IF such a ship capsized, wouldn't there be a lot more chariots in the area? Yes, a full army was sent out. But the chariots were generally spread out over a large area. This isn't a convoy, it's an army.

    How far was explored under water? Probably not far enough. If they found 40 more chariots spread over a half mile and clear across the perceived area of crossing -- plus bones of soldiers and armor, I wonder if it would be enough to convince you.

    Scientist (According to the History Channel) have agreed that a water pull-back may have happened -- like it would during a pre-tsunami. Maybe Moses was very sensitive to quakes. (Remember Thailand? Many elephants headed away from the coast because they detected a rumbling undetectable by human ears.)

    A sudden shift in the crust or collapse of a large piece of land into sea can cause a draw-back.

    While the full evidence is still sketchy, and I agree a chariot wheel or two at the bottom of the sea isn't a lot, It is evidence. It's true that your possible explanation is reasonable. But science and the "Inland Tsunami" is also.

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  13. Now, to Jonestown. I had never heard of Jim Jones, never heard of Jonestown. I mentioned it only because it seemed relevant to the situation. I didn't get exact numbers, or the like. Do you dream numbers? And NO, I never dreamed that I'd win the lottery, or a car. Sure, I'd LIKE to win. But if I dream it, I'll let you know. And what if I DO win? Coincidence?

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  14. As to the weather (SNOW, TORNADO) I don't deny that weather can do some odd things. But this is MN. When it starts snowing, it continues until the system has passed. I've lived here 50 years, so I have seen a lot of weird weather. But I had NEVER seen a snow storm stop for 2 hours then start up again (Not in the cities).

    The Tornado was odd... Because of the hand-shaped cloud that formed underneath it, and seemed to prevent it from hitting the ground. I didn't ask that a tornado not hit... I asked that it not do any damage. Since the cloud prevented it from hitting the ground, no damage was done.

    I only wish I had had my video camera set up at that time. I've never seen a hand-shaped cloud before. If you had seen my prayer, and how quickly the hand-cloud formed, you might be singing a different tune. But you didn't see it.

    Yes, I had seen funnel clouds that didn't hit the ground...but never one being stopped by another cloud. ODD WEATHER PATTERN? Certainly. But that it would do precisely that at that given time, in that given place, and right after a prayer? What are the odds?

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  15. My last post I was working on disappeared. But I was on the subject of the "Black Vision" I saw near Elk River, MN. I was passing the area at about 5:45 AM (Can't say exact, but very close to then). The area I saw the vision was well lit, although I was in a much darker area. I saw that "Black Vision" three times, and once (Same area) a white mist.

    These were varying times of year (November, March, January (Not sure, but the sun wasn't up!)

    The first time, it was March. My brother-in-law passed away at that time. It was only a couple days after the vision. Then, in November of 2001, I had the same "black vision". My mother-in-law had been healthy. While she was in her 80s, she was healthy. But she had suffered a heart attack. I saw that same vision again on Friday (A day or two after the first) -- the the next day (Saturday) she passed on.

    The White Vision -- I learned that same day that my Niece (Who was pregnant) had miscarried.

    No shadows could have cause this... the street was too well lit in that area. The Sun wasn't up yet. And the vision always went from West to East. That never varied. And over the 10 years I traveled that route, I saw the "black Vision" only 3 times. The "White" one, only once. And when you consider that I traveled an average of 5 days/week through that area, and only saw it 4 times... (About 2500 days), and a death was reported in so short a time frame -- How can it be a coincidence? Three deaths with-in a few days after seeing the vision? Coincidence doesn't wash.

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  16. Taking a break from answers, more later.

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  17. Now, let me comment on the Eagle that landed on the tractor. Yes, I certainly do live where there are eagles. Bald Eagles are more common now than 40 years ago, thanks to conservation efforts. But how many times have you ever seen one in a tree nearby, on your own property, or perched on a nearby fence post? Eagles are generally solitary birds, and they tend to stay away from people.

    But to have one land upon one of your vehicles? Come on... the tractor has the smell of human on it (I had been on it the day before, trying to fix it...but it was dead because of a burned out engine)

    I prayed, specifically, for a Cooper's Hawk or Bald Eagle to land on THAT TRACTOR if there was a new job in my future. And there are a lot more hawks in this area than Eagles. I couldn't accurately give a ratio, but in any given time period of a month or more, I'd say I see at least 80 times more hawks than Eagles.

    Well, I hadn't even made it into the interviews anywhere for more than 3 months. And my last application had actually expired. They only keep them for a month. I had passed that time limit. The other job I applied for, I just got the interview. So actually I had TWO calls that week. BOTH after the bird showed up on the tractor as my request. The job I got was on the one with the application that should have been tossed, since it was past the date.

    Tell me one other thing, if you will: IF the chariot wheel dates back to the time of Moses, would you believe? Remember, the Israelis would have been "Penned in" by the Sea, Pharaoh would not send a bunch of boats since the Israelis had none.

    I want to know: Just what would it take to convince you? Or would you, like Elijah battling the prophets of BAAL, need lightning to strike a pyre under a clear sky? I can't give you a guarantee on the results, as I am not God. But the fervent prayer of the righteous man avails much. You may STILL say coincidence after that. I can't change your mind. Only GOD can do that. But I can guarantee this: There will come a time when you are overwhelmed. Nothing will go right. You will be lost and alone. You will have nobody to whom you can turn. You will cry out to GOD. And GOD will answer.

    "One by one, He took from me the things I valued most, Until I was empty-handed, every glittering toy was lost. And I walked this world in abject Poverty, until I heard a voice call out 'lift those empty hands unto me.'

    So I raised my hands to heaven, and God filled them with a store of his own transcendent riches, until they could contain no more. Then at last I comprehended, with my stupid mind, and dull, that God can't put His riches into hands already full."
    (NOT SURE OF AUTHOR)

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