Sandy gets off work about midnight.  Since her computer work
station is in our bedroom, I normally don't go to bed before she
does because all that keyboard clicking, and voice synthesizer
chatter, wakes me up sometimes.  So, I sometimes watch TV for
awhile but I almost always go listen to national news on the radio
to see if the world has come to an end yet or to see if the
rapture has occurred and somehow I missed it.  the station I catch
the national network news on, also broadcasts Coast To coast A M
which used to be run by Art Bell.  Anyhow, back in the very early
nineties, I began listening to the show, from time to time, and
discovered, they sometimes have Christians on.  They often don't
realize it up front but later it turns out they are Christians who
happen to be experts in different areas.  I do grow weary of all
the UFO stuff, on the other hand, because I could care less if
there is intelligent life on other planets or not.  Of course,
they have quite a crop of psychics as guests on the show.  These
are people who are never wrong and their predictions are 100
percent on target every time.  Yeah, right.  No, I don't listen
for very long because I go to bed normally as soon as Sandy
finishes work between 11:30 and midnight.  Besides, you can only
take so much of the UFO stuff and the psychic stuff before you
start playing with your fingers and toes, if you know what I mean.
So, last night, I checked the show out, as usual.  I like seeing
what the rest of the world is doing and thinking.  Washington DC
tops the list for luny tune entertainment but Coast To coast is in
the top five at least.  So anyhow, I switch the program on.  I had
been listening to the BBC broadcast on a local National Public
Radio station, you know, NPR, that really conservative Christian
news outfit?  they had been giving better coverage on the Middle
East and I was way more interested in that than hearing about
somebody picked up by a UFO or a psychic who once again got a
prediction right.  I noticed they never mention when the psychic
guest has missed a prediction.  speaking of which, remind me to
tell you the time I caught Art Bell in an out and out lie on his
show.  Of course, Art now lives in the Philippines because a few
weeks after his wife passed away, he married a 22 year old
Filipino lady so he left and move there.  Art is 60 years old.
Lucky guy.  I might move to the P I if I could find a 22 year
young woman to love me.  No, scratch that.  I'm in love with a 60
year old woman so I got it backwards.  Well, she is almost sixty.
Anyhow, I switched over to see what they were talking about.  A
woman called the show  and told a story about how she was healed
from seizures from one of these Brazilian psychic healers that
waves his hands over your body and you are miraculously healed.
I wonder if you have to take your clothes off first?  Anyhow, it
is nothing new and I have read about them for more than 30 years
from Brazil and the P I, the Philippine Islands, and many other
places.  This healer told this lady, one reason why she wasn't
being completely healed permanently was due to a couple of
reasons.  First, her medication was keeping her sick.  There's
good advice if I ever saw it.  secondly, he told her that she was
not doing what she was called to do.  What was she called to do,
you ask?  She is supposed to be a medium.  You know, a psychic,
fortune teller, Tarot card reader, necromancer, that's somebody
who can speak to the dead for you and some claim to be able to
produce the dead so you can talk with them, and some modern
mediums, the real hip ones, can even communicate with flying
saucers and people millions of light years away.  Yeah, pretty
cool.  Nope.  You are right.  Some of these people really do
believe they have a gift from god.  Of course, it isn't the God we
know and that's why I spelled it with a small g and not with a
capital letter.  I almost laughed out loud when this lady told
her story but then I felt sorry for her because she really
believes what she experienced.  The great counterfeiter is still
at work but it isn't anything new.  Just read the Bible and you'll
read of people just like this.  Well, excluding the UFO bit.  Some
people today, however, believe that's what Ezekiel was describing
but all you have to do is read it once to know such is not the
case.  Anyhow, somehow I thought that story was worth sharing.  I
have heard of Christians who listen to this show at night just to
be able to pray for everyone who calls in to find the truth.
thank you Jesus for the faithful and give them strength.

Phil.


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