In a happy surprise, Food Lion has kiwi berries which is Southern chefs #1 fancy fruit for epic pastry desserts. Delicious. I’ve been sitting on this supernatural story as it doesn’t fit in a neat package, but let’s do something not, “Let’s start WW III in the Middle East.” Almost a decade ago, I was in a bad car wreck. The kind that leaves twenty plus broken bones, chronic pain, and since my ribs healed wrong, every breath for seven plus years felt like swallowing glass. You swallow that pain and learn to live with it.
Two years ago, listening to a youtube scifi podcast by Rob Skiba and his guest Nathan Rynolds. Skiba was a well-known flat earther and did supernatural/scifi stories in the Bible before he died. Angels. Demons. Great stories. Didn’t believe them. Not God. Not the devil. None of it.
But I did like reading scifi fantasy and at the end he said, “If you don’t believe in God, ask him to prove to you he’s real.” As a joke, I said it, then laughed, and walked outside.
A wasp stung the left calf, still have the scar today. The only body part not in pain. It was also the first full-clean deep breath in years, weird. Then the inflammation started spreading. Only the red didn’t randomly spread, it formed a giant eagle plate-sized tattoo over the space of a few hours. Which for someone who didn’t believe in the supernatural at ALL, completely freaked me out. Took a few epsom salt baths.
The chronic pain went away with the wasp mark fading. The bones straightened. The nerves in my right foot quit acting up. Small aches and pains you learn to live with as part of “getting old”? Gone. Obviously, being an atheist this was a huge problem. What happens when you mock God and he decides to answer you back with an impossible miracle?
No medical procedure heals nerves or fixes badly set bones years after a major accident.
Still, don’t have the answers. But God definitely exists. Whelp, do what you will with it. And if you want your life to change in ways you can’t imagine, maybe try asking God to prove to you that he’s real too? You never know what will happen.