The Necklace with the Bible

    The story as I know it:


    " I know it sounds weird to a lot of people, but I had a necklace that my mother had gotten at a church sale before I was born. She kept it with an old Bible that she had gotten at the same time. (The old lady who sold it to her told her to keep it with the Bible at all times) One day I saw it and thought it was so beautiful and delicate, with a deep purple stone, that she gave it to me...

I had some of the most dangerous experiences of my life in the summer that I wore it... She decided to see if there was anything to it. She couldn't believe it, since it had come from a church sale and she knew the nice old woman who had sold it, though she might not have been the owner. So I gave it to her to see what  happened, and she, too, had a couple of very dangerous things happen in a matter of the first 24 hours.

We thought perhaps it was something hateful, but also that it might have been something tragic that the original owner had experienced... and maybe she died wearing it... but, whatever it was, after that we decided not to try to keep it around the house another day.

 We conferred as to what to do with it.... She dug a deep a hole in a big field, and buried it, with a prayer that it go back to the elements from whence it came and do no more harm. We continued to pray for the release of whatever force it held., until we felt that it had been released.

I don't know if the Bible had kept whatever was attached to it, in check, and I would probably have scoffed if anyone had told me something like this, but it was just too strange to be coincidental... It was the only time I think either of us had experienced something like that, and it sounds like some cheap movie plot but ... I've kept a more open mind since then "

... and love is just a word

We alter the way of base nature when we try to do things our way ... but, of course, nature can be cruel and life not so good when we lived primitively ... There were illnesses there was no cure for, people were hungry and killing one another, the world was a dangerous place ... Hmmm ...  Yeah ...............

Some people think that we are to create Heaven on Earth through changing the ways of nature, and that is all well and good, but the one thing we need to do is learn to love and appreciate what is here, and share it...

 No matter how rich and powerful a person is, or how popular they may become, noone lives here forever ... I often wonder if those who are out to gain the world, really think about how they would feel looking back on their lives when they have passed on ... I think they are more concerned about how history will tell their story, and what goodies they can get here and now because they don't really believe there is anything beyond this life. They are not heros... they are just wild animals going for prey and greedy hoarders who seem to think they can take it with them, even when they don't believe they are going anywhere ... and they don't care how it is for anyone else ... Those who suffer and die for lack of having needs met, are to blame for it themselves, or it's no different than if they were trying to survive in nature... some make it and some don't, right?

 Yes ... and THAT's the point/// The only thing that makes a difference is love and helping, guiding, teaching one another...  That is the only way to make Heaven on Earth ... Heaven on Earth is when humans decide to transform their base animal nature and share the wealth of  their Spiritual Nature  ... anything else humans create is just base nature, manufactured, with a pretty painted face, and love is just a word ...