May 2010
... more thoughts on death and dying
Many thoughts since Mom left us... yesterday I was talking to my brother Bruno out in Milwaukee and mentioned how it was time for Mom to go... there is a time for everything... a time to live and a time to die... it was her time...Bruno commented... "that's from Ecclesiastes"... then agreed that it was time for Mom to leave... she had finished her course...
...thoughts on death and dying
Haven't written anything in several days. Mom died on Wednesday May 19th just past Noon... she was 95.....it has kept me pretty occupied by supplying several days worth of things to do... :)
...the next episode
So here I am... it's now 1974... Philip the "flaming evangelist" has now been translated into "Captain Charismatic"... Treasurer of the FGBMFI.... President of Deeper Life, Inc... owner of the Christian Center Book Store and owner of the real estate where it was located....
...the road to the Charismatic movement
All those other stories I've told... about our involvement in one religious system after the other... even ended up in the 70's in a little Southern Baptist Church where it was a lot more me that was the problem...than them... they had no place to put this big 6'4" guy wearing his work vest that was full of roof cement... and had these little round, very red, florescent "Jesus Loves You" stickers plastered on it...
....the saddest story :(
Of those 8 million stories I'm working hard at telling here... there were many, many really sad ones... like hearing about the guy who led me into my own Pentecostal experience.... leaving his wife.... I didn't get that at all... had no place to put it back then.. I mean like I immediately loved this big guy that had invited me to dinner... to a room in his home overnight and then gave me a huge bear hug when I held out my hand to introduce myself....
I guess it could have been worse...
All the stuff I said about those addictions the other day?... the sad thing is/was that... I guess it could have been worse... I mean I could have stayed addicted to all that stuff the world systems had offered me... probably would not have made it for another 32 years if I did.... :)
....confessions of an addict
When I went off to College in 1952.... the first thing I learned at school... was how I could stay awake by taking amphetamines... you bought them over the counter back then... anytime I needed to stay awake... I just popped this little orange pill... it wasn't until 1965 that it became a prescription drug... and now it is known on the street as speed and crank.... :)
....the whistleblower
At the risk of being a bit melodramatic about what I believe to be a serious responsibility... being a "whistleblower" on the Religious Systems that surround us... it does seem that somebody is really upset about it...
