The Lucky One

Saying for the day: I can not not beleive.

IN one of the Peanut Cartoon Strips Snoopy ( a dog) says that “ Some are born dogs and some are born people. Why should I be the lucky one?”
In life there are those who have considered all the facts , gone over all the proofs, and come to the very rational conclusion that there is no God.
They see Christians as stupid, irrational, deluded people.
I know this because I read their blogs.

Then there are those like me who ran into the living God and had their lives turned upside down.
We are stuck being Christian.
God is as real to us as our next door neighbor.
We can not, not believe.
Why should we be the lucky ones?

My atheist friends think we believe because of heaven and our fear of death.
Nonsense! I look forward to heaven only because I will get to know God in a way that I can’t now.
I believe because of the joy and the peace that God has filled my life with since I moved from atheism to believing.
I will grant my atheism friends that all the miracles in my life could be just coincidences.
I will grant them I could be deluded .
I will grant them that the joy and the peace I feel might not be real.

But I can’t stop believing.
I am stuck with God.
Why should I be the lucky one?
I don’t know the answer to that question.
I just know that I am.

@@@@ News from Pigeon Falls– the little town in my garage where trains still run and the dragons speak Finnish– Tommy, the undertaker’s kid, has come up with a plan to see if Tom, the writer, is really a dragon. Tommy is going to learn a Finnish question and ask it of Tom , the writer,. He might be able to get Tom to give himself away. First Tommy had to choose the Finnish question. He decided on “Mistä sinä tulet? ( where do you come from?) Then he waited for an opportunity to ask it. That came yesterday at Nancy’s coffee shop. They were talking about places they had been and Tommy asked Tom “mistä sinä tulet“. Tom answered without hesitation “ Ishpeming”. Then Tom laughed and said I knew the Finnish that Isoäiti taught me as a kid would come in handy some day. So poor Tommy really doesn’t know anymore than he did before. He can’t just come out and say “ Excuse me sir are you a dragon?” But now Tommy is wondering if the dragon is really Finnish. Its possible, the dragon, like Tommy only knows a few Finnish words. It is possible that the dragon took the words from Mrs. Mattson’s mind. He could still be a small English dragon. Tommy is going back to reading about dragons looking for some kind of clue. Eino told him to give it up and go back to useful studies. But what kid has time for those?
Pastor Marvel preached this morning on missing God. In the text Jesus tells the assembled people that he is the fulfillment of prophecy and they still miss that he is God. According to Pastor Marvel there are those moments in life when God runs into us and we either say Wow! or we shake our heads and go on. The problem with the Wow! Is that it is the beginning of a process that will turn our lives upside down. But if we miss it we lose out. Its certainly something for the people of Last Lutheran to think about.
Nancy is having dinner out at the Old Hermit place again today. That’s two weeks in a row. Tommy, the writer, must be a great cook.
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Link for the day-Temporarily Me- It asks the question " Are armpits attractive?" Please leave the words Dr. John in your answer.
Went to church this morning at St. Marks. It was a great experience. The pastor is not a great preacher but he may be a great pastor. They had a bell choir. At communion the common cup was held by a man in a wheelchair. It was not very practical and slowed things down but the man ' s face beemed. After the service they had a luncheon to celebrate the birthday of an older member. It reminded me of United. I like this church. In the afternoon Pennie and Betty took a u-haul truck and went and got a matress and a box spring from Peter's house. I stayed here and met the man bringing Pennie's new dresser. Then I read a book. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA