No, I Am Not a Religious Nut*
But I've seen, what I've seen.
Who is the lightning and who is the rainbow?
And I have seen a lot. The following story is only scratching the surface.
I was only five years old**, when I slipped on some ice and ended up in the middle of an ice-covered street, where a truck was coming down a slope. The road was so icy that I couldn’t budge. The wheels were heading across my legs above the knees. I remember my mother screaming, of which, for some reason, I felt ashamed. All of a sudden, I saw my future life passing in front of me without legs, and a voice asked me, “How about that?” As a child, I had no prepared answers, so I paused a little and, finally said, only to the voice, “I’d rather not.” The truck on a 30% slope with tires as smooth as the icy road itself, stopped a couple of inches before going over my legs, while I couldn’t move an inch, no matter how hard I tried. If you have an explanation for that other than the way I feel about it, please, let me know. By now, you must also know that I am not a bullshitter. For all I know, I still have both legs.
How could possibly God care?
God, occasionally, sends you a love letter. In all these letters, He tells you you are the most important for Him.
Here is one of his letters, called “Words”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9hs0f9DHJs
There is plenty more.
My wife can converse with crickets, frogs, lizards, groundhogs, butterflies, hummingbirds and all kinds of other little birds, even following her like she is Snow White in the old Disney cartoon, grasshoppers, and of course, with plants of all kinds. They all bear the testimony of God’s love to her. I jokingly say to her every once in a while, “That’s why you also love me, Darling!”
If the Creator, God, doesn’t love you, who else can and will?
*Never obsessed over religion or tried to convince anyone.
**Didn’t receive any religious instructions at home and nobody even prayed with me.
Interesting story: I knew a man (my husband) a navy sailor…stationed on an aircraft carrier… who fell overboard in the North Pacific…only one other seaman saw him go over…they fished him out…he survived! During the tail end of the Korean War he was the only man to survive an airplane crash on the deck of an aircraft carrier! After a dishonorable discharge for missing his ship after landing in a Communist jail…he recovered himself..to obtain a…Presidential pardon… and entered flight school in Bryan Texas…graduated 1 of 22 out of 200 cadets..graduated as a first Lt. In the USAF! At his first duty station he was do to fly on a kc 97 air tanker refueler with a 10 man crew..the day of take off an English exchange major bumped my husband off his flight.. as he outranked him and needed the flight time…the plane took of and crashed just shortly after… killing all 10 men on board! This happened shortly before our marriage…I had written him and my letter came back stamped deceased! While flying a practice mission.. as command pilot.. at night on a b-47 bomber..something told my husband to turn on the landing lights…the navigator was off on his calculations and come to find out they were just skimming along the tree tops..only seconds to crash…they barley had time to pull up! While flying as a b-47 command pilot on a night flight to Spain one engine caught fire…they were able to shut it down and continue flight..had it happened during daytime they might never have seen it! In 1966 while flying as a forward air controller.. spotter aircraft.. in Vietnam along with another aircraft my husbands plane was shot down…he perished on June 22nd 1966…3 months before this he surrendered his life to Christ…and was carrying a small Bible I sent him..in his pocket on his flight…he’s with the Lord! You might be tempted to say..he was lucky..or maybe his luck finally ran out…but I don’t believe a word of that….God was with him through all these harrowing incidence! The Lord was speaking to him in every situation…getting his attention…God is never late…He’s always on time when it comes to His elect! He’s willing that none perish..but that all come to repentance!
I was feeling hopeless the other day, since I read or listen to the mounting death toll and injuries as well as what is surely on its way in the near future, too many hours a day.
I took a short walk and witnessed it raining on only one side of the street - I'd never seen this before - and not on the side I was on. I went into a store to make a purchase and walked out to see the unusual rain pattern again and a complete arc, beautiful rainbow on the horizon. I was not rained on. I took it as a sign that all is not lost. We are spirits in a material world...