I’m Still Here

My website changes are not taking effect yet, so I’m still here. May as well blog.

Here is interesting news. My sister called, and she was asking my advice on religious charities that benefit Jews. In fact, she was all excited about helping Jews get out of Sudan. I told her what I knew about the IFCJ, and I told her my readers had mentioned some other group that flies Jews to Israel, without the ban on proselytizing.

How did this happen? This is not the person I used to know. Do I see a complete change? No, but I see what appears to be a valid beginning, which is more than I hoped for. Even though I prayed for it every day.

She seems more willing to trust televangelists than I am. She recommends a guy named Perry Stone. I watched one of his shows on Youtube tonight. Not bad. He acknowledges our debt to Judaism. Doesn’t seem obsessed with collecting money.

A while back, I said I was going to start memorizing the psalms. I thought I should follow up. It’s working very well. I’m up to 6. I’ve memorized 1, 2, 4, 23, 63, and 101. The power of the psalms is impressive. I have to repeat them to memorize them, and as I do, the hidden meanings of the words become clear, and I realize how much I have in common with the psalmists. Their experiences and concerns are so much like mine.

Here’s something wild. I often wake up in the night, because I have rude neighbors. I hate to waste time. Ordinarily I use times like this for prayer. Recently I started using them to work on memorization, repeating the psalms to myself over and over. And the results are nothing short of amazing. I fall asleep every time, within a couple of minutes. Without fail. And it’s not because I’m bored. There is nothing boring about it.

Some Christians claim praying in tongues will cure insomnia. That has not been my experience. But the psalms work consistently and quickly. Which, to me, indicates that the real source of my sleep problems is supernatural. Regardless of how my neighbors behave.

It’s funny, the psalms seem cryptic and even meaningless, if you don’t have God to illuminate them for you. So much of Christianity is like that. It’s no wonder people who know nothing about the Holy Spirit think we’re idiots.