I forwarded this in private to Eric recently. The response has made me feel it worth sharing with those that have followed this forum through its trials and tribulations.
Thank you, Dr. Gage, for giving me a few words that justify my opening my SINCERE views to our public.
Slightly rewritten for clarity, (notes in parens):
Below is a portion of a letter to a recently published friend of mine, his telling how he has found his guidance to be from Jesus. This gentleman is one of the sincerest people I have (ever) met, and am honored to call my friend.
In this letter, I share a true aspect of an unknown but very real force that has been in my life for at least 52 years.
Hoping for respect of me, an open offer of the most accurate appraisal I have ever written of my feelings in regards to religion or whatever (it) is that guides us through this life:
"We have more in common than either may fully realize!
I suspect your Shepard and the whatever I have lived with for most of my life have much in common, though show themselves in dramatically different ways. I have lived with a "supernatural" guardian angel for over 50 years. Only within slightly over two years has that apparition been visible long enough and close enough to be fully recognized. AT LEAST TWO events in this recent history are so real that the feeling of, if not true, physical contact was there. She has shown happiness, pain, sorrow; CLOUDED MY PATH (a place we often visit, yet this day having a situation related to a past life threatening incident, the walkway and front door shrouded in a dense cloud visible to only me!), and visibly shown displeasure, fear and openly wept for my safety where I was in the presence of three people that at one time wished me terminal harm. I have watched her push one party away from a path that would have lead directly past me, forcing that party to drop the items being carried, possibly but to provide me with comfort and privacy!
We both know there is something out there affecting our lives. I suspect it takes a form most useful to the person it is responding to. Yours is Jesus, mine is showing in the form of the only true love I will ever have."
Humbly submitted,
bill
Thank you, Dr. Gage, for giving me a few words that justify my opening my SINCERE views to our public.
Slightly rewritten for clarity, (notes in parens):
Below is a portion of a letter to a recently published friend of mine, his telling how he has found his guidance to be from Jesus. This gentleman is one of the sincerest people I have (ever) met, and am honored to call my friend.
In this letter, I share a true aspect of an unknown but very real force that has been in my life for at least 52 years.
Hoping for respect of me, an open offer of the most accurate appraisal I have ever written of my feelings in regards to religion or whatever (it) is that guides us through this life:
"We have more in common than either may fully realize!
I suspect your Shepard and the whatever I have lived with for most of my life have much in common, though show themselves in dramatically different ways. I have lived with a "supernatural" guardian angel for over 50 years. Only within slightly over two years has that apparition been visible long enough and close enough to be fully recognized. AT LEAST TWO events in this recent history are so real that the feeling of, if not true, physical contact was there. She has shown happiness, pain, sorrow; CLOUDED MY PATH (a place we often visit, yet this day having a situation related to a past life threatening incident, the walkway and front door shrouded in a dense cloud visible to only me!), and visibly shown displeasure, fear and openly wept for my safety where I was in the presence of three people that at one time wished me terminal harm. I have watched her push one party away from a path that would have lead directly past me, forcing that party to drop the items being carried, possibly but to provide me with comfort and privacy!
We both know there is something out there affecting our lives. I suspect it takes a form most useful to the person it is responding to. Yours is Jesus, mine is showing in the form of the only true love I will ever have."
Humbly submitted,
bill
