Daily writing prompt

What brings you peace?

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I have always had this fear of dying, maybe a little more than others. Then a few days before my 50th birthday I went into the hospital with a little pain near my left shoulder blade. After some tests, they decided to do a cath test of my heart. It revealed a 90% blockage of a main artery. I mean I was a walking talking heart attack waiting to happen. However, up this this point, all I had was a little pain.

The doctor decided to put a stint in to help the blood flow. As he was working on it, I started feeling two spots of burning pain, one on each side of my breast bone. Then I started feeling nausea and dizzy. I figured this was it. The death I feared was very near. I felt panic and fear. I also felt pain.

Finally, I just gave up. In my mind, I said, “Well, I guess this is it. In just a while, I’ll see Jesus face to face.” Suddenly, the fear and panic were gone. Just a short time later, the pain went away too. There on that table during that procedure, I felt the presents of Jesus.

As I said many times before, I was saved at 13. However, there on that table, during that procedure, I felt a peace that most will never understand. I knew that if I had died then and there, Jesus was right there to take care of me.

He didn’t take me that day, but it changed my life, my outlook. I still fear death. However, I do feel a peace about it. I know that when my time comes, Jesus will be right there. He will help me through it and He will take me home.

That day at that time, I never felt so much peace before or since, odd as that might seem in the midst of a heart attack.

Incidentally, what caused the pain was a small piece of plaque that broke loose and floated downstream blocking a smaller artery. It did kill a small part of my heart. It’s still not something I ever want to go through again, but if and when it happens, I know Jesus will be there to take care of me.

I can’t imagine anyone wanting to go through something like that without Jesus. I strongly suggest you accept Jesus as your savior. I am sure that if you don’t and something like that happens to you, you will not be feeling peace. You do not want to face Jesus without accepting Him as your savior. It would be far better for you to feel the same peace I did. Now, at 73, I am more sure of that then ever.

Daily writing prompt

What are you curious about?

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Over the years I have been curious about many things, about why people do some dumb things, including myself. I have been curious about many things in science. Then of course, there are the things where an engineer designs things a certain way when almost the whole world knows it should be another. A recent thing that has my curiosity is why they seal potato chip bags so well that you can’t open them. I guess in a way, they could call them diet potato chips. If you can’t open them, then you can’t eat them.

However, throughout my life the one thing that has me the most curious, almost sense I first heard about it was just why Eve was not curious. I mean, if I was just standing there looking at a fruit tree and a snake came along and started talking to me, that would have me curious. Yet, as near as we can tell from the text, she does not seem to be surprised.

That spawns a number of more questions. Perhaps I have not even considered them all. Was it common place for the snake and Eve to converse? For that matter, did Adam and Eve converse with other animals as well? They might have talked about the weather with the chimps or with the the birds.

Then again, maybe the communication was not by sound. Maybe they communicated by mind waves. I guess they could have had some form of sign language.

It does say that God punished the snake by drastically changing it. Maybe the snake was very intelligent. Maybe, of all the animals, the serpants were the only ones that could talk.

Truly, I have found nothing in the Bible that explains it. It doesn’t make me doubt it. Just curious. One more thing. It really makes me wonder if this was the serpent’s first conversation with Eve, or Adam for that matter.

By the way, you notice one more thing. Satan talked to Eve through the serpent. It does make me wonder if it was possible for him to speak to Eve without something to speak through. If Satan did not need the snake, why did he use it?

Just curious.