This post became six for a single day. I managed to separate them out, but the six posts of this day are all to be considered as originating from the same stream of thought. The order in which they are read is unlikely to matter.

As I process through it, my wife was not really raised in a church, but was more raised in various Christian schools where she was made to study by herself and go up for the various tests that were required for her to pass her required material and move onto the next level or course of material. Even now, this explains a mind-blowing number of obstacles she faces in her daily walk.  The timing of this epiphany with the material above about the foreclosures and the shift that occurred during that one flesh brain moment is so God awesome.  And God Q’s up my victory song, “The Goodness of God” also played at the stations last night that brought me to tears.

I put the ear bud in and push the button and find Matt Maher’s Come Holy Spirit turn on in the middle, right where I left it. I switched it to the song on the playlist that is before the Goodness of God. It’s In the Room by Matt Maher, and it is so beautiful and powerful. I don’t care what it takes or rquires, the only place I want to be is in the room where He moves, and I’m not leaving. I have sang  his praises through this song more times that I care to remember.  I love Matt Maher.  My wife is blown away that I can have the computer on, Star Trek Picard Season 2 on the screen, and my ear bud in. I told her I was in a different place right now.  Before that she talks about not liking dystopian timeline shifts… really? You don’t like timeline shifts..? It’s ok, we totally didn’t just “Go back to where it all started…” So much love for God’s faithfulness and His goodness I cannot even describe. He constantly puts on a show for His children for those who will sit down and let their Father tell them a beautiful story, the story of their father and his father. “It’s all connected”

My wife was never baptized as a child and her supposed baptism at 19 is questionable at best and at worst was a baptism of cold in Lake Tahoe at a retreat of some sort. The only thing she remembers is freezing in the water. Her shared memories of this baptism raised all sorts of red flags for me, and were of such a questionable status for her that we both will go through baptism and confirmation at the Easter vigil when we become full members of the Catholic Church. Neither of us can produce a required record of our baptisms. Mine happened in an outside pool of a Marriot Springhill Suites, a couple blocks East of the Southern corner of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas where we were staying for reasons I will not discuss right now, but I heard the words of a trinitarian baptism so clearly in my head while under the water and when I came up out of the water, I knew I was changed.  I KNOW that was my baptism by the Holy Spirit.  I was alone in the pool, but I was compelled to go swimming in the pool in the usual manner for me. If it raises anyone’s eyebrows, that is why I also heard clearly when the question of our Baptisms came up in RCIA that I absolutely will be baptized the way it is supposed to be done, not in a manner consistent with “figuring it out on my own as an orphan trying to get home ten years prior”

While watching Star Trek Picard, one of the characters is walking through a homeless camp. The timing of this matters for posts at a different time. Of course they’re walking through a homeless camp while the main characters are visibly uncomfortable while walking through it, oblivious to the truth that both of those characters were looking in mirrors of themselves.  This is related to the  timing of the Epiphany of the Homeless, posted elsewhere at a point in the future.

The actor and the film share a similar place for me as Maverick and Tom Cruise and a select group of others. It really is hard to articulate the pure awesome that is that movie. How or why do movies like this call to a particular group of people with a manner of intensity that is commonly shared? Robin Hood – Prince of Thieves does the same thing. It’s mysterious.

Have a blessed day.  Thank you for your perseverance.

Logging out,

Poor Fellow Soldier of Christ

Numbers 6:24-26 – The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace