Chris' Christian Blog

July 25, 2020

Prompt: “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Is there some one in your life that you've had that what, you, too moment with and when you thought it happen only to yourself? Share something special about that relationship."

I can't think of any single person this has happened with, but I can think of thousands of people throughout my lifetime. The one thing I have determined is that I am not all that unique. There are a lot of times that I feel that what I am going through is a unique event, but I always come to find out that it is not. Ecclesiastes 1:9 says there is nothing new under the sun.

"Prompt: Today is Culinarians Day. This is the day to celebrated cooks, both professional and amateur. Write a tribute to someone in your life who cooks."

I live at the West Virginia Veterans Home in Barboursville WV. The food here is usually good. A lot of the guys complain about it. I guess they never ate a C-ration. I mean why would a soldier have eaten a C-ration or an Meal Ready to Eat (MRE)? It doesn't figure for people to complain about the cooking here. The spaghetti we had the other night was as good as my mom made and she made delicious spaghetti. I've even gone to her house special to have her cook it. She was a good cook.

Prompt: "God has brought me through so much that I can never recount all the miraculous things He has done for me. He has delivered me from drug addiction, overdoses, car wrecks, and countless other things. Share a few of the miracles He has done in your life."

As I said in the prompt, I have survived numerous things that should have killed me. After I posted the prompt last night I stayed up for an online meeting with one of my professors. I forgot to take my night medicine, which means I had nightmares through the night. I have always heard that if you die in a dream you will also die in real life. If that is true I survived a nightmare because I died in my nightmare. In the dream, I had an aneurysm and I remember the doctor saying "He's dying."

The next thing I knew I was standing before God. God was sending me a message in my dreams. It terrified me even though I am a Christian. God is a terrifying individual. He wanted me to know what it felt like to be judged and condemned. When it happened I remember screaming "No, no! Please, Lord!"

Then I woke up partway and an angel was fighting with a demon for me. The angel told me "God wanted you to see what the lost are going to face. Now God says to wake up. You are saved and will remain saved if you are faithful."

It took me twenty minutes to get over the terror. The nurse here said it was "sleep paralysis" related to my narcolepsy. I know it was terrifying but I survived what we are not supposed to survive.

Prompt: "I was cruising the galaxy and found this planet.

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Dreaming  (ASR) Writing my dreams #214675 by Rhyssa

Without the words that form my dreams and impulse themselves upon my hand, I am nothing. Use this line in your Blog entry today."

It's odd that you would bring dreams to the table as a prompt. I had either a dream or a vision or a hallucination due to sleep paralysis last night that terrified me. I take a stimulant in the morning to keep me awake and sleeping medication at night to put me completely under. If I don't I have nightmares. I got sidetracked last night and by the time I remembered my sleeping medication, it was too late to take it. I had nightmares. I wrote about it in the prompt before this one.