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Wow, I didn't realize it, but I haven't had time to keep up with my blog! I have been so busy, what with cats, dogs and family, it has been crazy around here. Anyway, here we go again!
My mother always told me that there would be days like the ones that I have been having. She just didn't bother to tell me that they would last for months at a time. What fun! Things get nuts around here at times. My dog, Chowder is neurotic. You must understand, Chowder is like my baby. A white furry ball of fluff that is going to permanently act like a two year old child. The terrible twos have nothing on this dog! I guess he is as crazy as his human. I'm not sure, but at times I think he has me beat.
If company is over, he does these tight circles, yips and jumps on whoever has come through the door. Mind you, I have tried everything to get him to quit. I have even threatened him with a bad butt beatin', but, it never works. I guess he would make a good burglar deterrent since he stays right under your feet. He could always trip them! And Lawd, don't take him for a walk when other dogs are out and about! He acts like a total fool. I know he only wants to play, but, for cryin' out loud, please! He won't stop!
We live in an apartment complex where there are a lot of stairways. He loves to pee at the bottom of every staircase. I have no inkling why he does this. There are plenty of bushes and trees. Why can't he pee on those? What's up with that?!
I have seen this dog tree a squirrel in a heartbeat. He can see them a good 3 buildings away. When he does, the race is on! Yesterday, he treed one and the squirrel actually turned around on the tree, got close to Chowder and started fussing at him! I think if the squirrel would have had access to nuts, he would have been bombing Chowder with them! Of course, all I could do was laugh at them. It looked so funny.
You know, I don't think I will trade this dog in. He is too funny, too cute and has a great personality. I guess I'll keep him.
The last blog that I wrote, someone asked me an interesting question. I really like the comments and questions, they give me something to think about. I decided this blog will be a partial answer to the comment section, since I had so much to say and really did not want to leave a long comment. Feel free to comment or ask questions!
Are there different levels to hell since there are different levels to heaven? I believe so. If God has created this world to have "mirror images" of the things in it, then surely hell is just the opposite of heaven and has just as many levels. Now, I am not so sure that the spirits that we see around us are in a literal hell as we think of it in our finite minds. It may be a hell of their own choosing since they are refusing to move on.
And, yes, the Bible does say that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. There are actually 3 different places that the deceased go to. From what I understand, those that were under Mosaic Law, or the Laws of Moses in the Old Testament, are asleep in the spirit until the day of Judgment. Those under the Davidic Law, or Christ's Redemption, in the New Testament, are present with the Lord as soon as their spirit crosses over. Those that were and are martyred for Jesus and God are placed under the Altar of the Lord until the Day of Judgment. In other words, there is a special place in Heaven for them. Do I believe that some of the spirits have stayed behind? Yes. Do I believe most of them have crossed over? Yes.
Well, I just wanted to explain what I think is going on. I may be very wrong, or I may be very right. I won't know until I get there.
Stay tuned for the next blog!
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Do you believe? Do I believe? Does the Bible support this belief? It is my belief that it does. Now, I know a lot of mainstream Christians are going to argue this point, but, just hear me out.
In the New Testament, when Jesus appeared before His disciples after His crucifixion, He was talking to them trying to convince them that He was really alive. He asked one of them "What do you think I am, a ghost?". I believe they may have thought He was.
After studying the Bible and praying as much as I have, I know that there are many things that we cannot understand. We won't understand until Judgement. But, I do know that the Word talks about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus left behind as our comforter. What exactly is the Holy Spirit? When Jesus died, His spirit was left behind. In the old translations of the Bible, this was called the Holy Ghost. In our world, that God created, there is opposites of everything. Heaven and hell, Angels and Demons, the Holy Spirit and apparently, spirits of those that have not, for one reason or other, have not moved on. As the Chinese say: The yin and the yang. It just makes sense to me that this is the way of things.
Now, you may ask, have I ever seen a ghost? Have I felt the Holy Spirit? The answer to both would be yes. I have been "sensing" spirits since a very young age. I always thought I was nuts. Turned out that I am sensitive to these things. As I have gotten older, I have become more sensitive. Probably because I accept it now.
I do think that some people don't move on because they are afraid to, they have unfinished business or they just don't realize they are dead. In the past, I lived in a house that used to be a morgue. When the house was bought, we did not know this, or we may not have bought it. There were very strange things that went on there. I slept with a light on in the bedroom or didn't sleep except during the daylight hours. Not that it stopped them from being around. It was just that I could "see" who/what was around me this way.
I know that this short blog won't convince anyone they are around us, but, I am using this as a kind of catharsis on what I have gone through. I will write more about this next time.
