{"id":2287,"date":"2014-02-17T21:49:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T21:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:24:09","slug":"im-a-believer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Believer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am going somewhere completely different from what I usually write about. \u00a0There are things going on in this world that cannot be explained. \u00a0There are portents of things to come in what is happening all around us. \u00a0Those of us who have studied the Bible are not surprised by what is happening. \u00a0Did you know the Bible mentions ghosts? \u00a0Not the Holy ghost, just ghosts.(Perhaps I should clarify that yes, the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit is mentioned in the Bible.) \u00a0When Jesus first appeared to some of the disciples, they thought at first that he was a ghost.<\/p>\n<p>There are some things I believe in. \u00a0I believe there is a God, that Jesus died for me and that He sits at the right hand of God right this minute. \u00a0I believe in angels and I believe there is a devil and his demons who roam the earth wreaking havoc on all people. \u00a0I believe in heaven and in hell. \u00a0I believe there is a battle going on all around us that we cannot see between angels and demons. \u00a0I believe there are many things we cannot explain. \u00a0I believe God does not want one of us to perish. \u00a0He sent His only Son after all. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think I could love that much to give up one of my sons to die for everyone. \u00a0But God did. \u00a0But this post is not about that. \u00a0I hope you will know I am being sincere in what I am telling you. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t make up things I am about to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>There are many things that cannot be explained through science or through practical knowledge. \u00a0We are all spiritual beings whether we are believers or not. \u00a0Some have just shut off the spiritual side of themselves and I believe they are missing a lot of what God has planned for them. But I am not talking about this kind of spirituality.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">I have never believed in ghosts. \u00a0That said, I have some really strange ghost stories to tell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Years ago, our family went on vacation and we stopped at this park where there was a fire tower that we wanted to climb, but our daughter was too little. \u00a0So David walked up with the boys taking the camera with him. \u00a0He took a picture of my daughter and me standing beneath the tower. \u00a0When we got home and had the pictures developed, we noticed something odd about the picture of my daughter and me. \u00a0It appeared there was another figure standing beside us. \u00a0A very distinct shape of a person. \u00a0There had been no other people around us that day.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a 100 year old house. \u00a0 From the very beginning of living here I began to see a cat running in the house. \u00a0Up the stairs usually. \u00a0We had cats later, but at the time, we had no cats. \u00a0Then a few years ago I was sitting in our living room and saw a cat run across the room right into the wall. \u00a0The hairs went up on the back of my neck. \u00a0I called to David in the kitchen and said, &#8220;You are not going to believe what I just saw.&#8221; \u00a0I don&#8217;t think he did.<\/p>\n<p>When my father died, a few nights after his death I was lying in bed and heard who I thought was David walking into the room. I lay there with my eyes closed. \u00a0Suddenly, I felt a presence standing over me and felt the most wonderful feeling of love. \u00a0I opened my eyes and David wasn&#8217;t there. \u00a0He was downstairs. \u00a0I have always thought it was my daddy coming to say good-bye.<\/p>\n<p>One night I was in my bedroom in bed and heard David come into the room and when he didn&#8217;t get in bed I opened my eyes and he wasn&#8217;t there. \u00a0I got up and called downstairs and asked him if he had come upstairs. \u00a0He said he hadn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Something happened that makes me think we have something going on in our house. \u00a0Our grandsons stayed overnight one night and the next day going home one of them said he didn&#8217;t want to stay overnight anymore because a bad man came into his room. \u00a0That sent the hairs on the back of my neck up because our daughter had the same experience once when she was small and had screamed from her room one night waking us all up from a deep sleep saying there was a man in her room. We searched everywhere. \u00a0 \u00a0She doesn&#8217;t remember it now. \u00a0 Now when I ask her about it, she says it was bees in the window, which did happen once, but not that night.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Well, this week two things happened that were really strange. \u00a0Okay, more than strange. \u00a0David and I were in the kitchen when out of the corner of my eye I saw a man in a white shirt \u00a0with dark hair coming into the kitchen. \u00a0He seemed to be surprised that we were there and backed out immediately and disappeared. \u00a0I said, &#8220;David, there was a man there just now.&#8221; \u00a0He just laughed. \u00a0Soon something strange would happen to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was out in my shop and David was in the house. \u00a0He came out to the shop and said,&#8221;Were you just in the house?&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;No, I said, why?&#8221; &#8221; Someone whistled at me at the back door and I whistled back. \u00a0It sounded just like you.&#8221; \u00a0Okay. \u00a0Ummmm. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know what happened, but he definitely heard someone whistle. So we have a cat owning, white shirt wearing, whistling ghost I guess. \u00a0As long as he&#8217;s friendly, I will be okay. \u00a0Sometimes I think someone is standing right behind me while I type here. \u00a0I feel nothing scary about it. \u00a0It just is.<\/p>\n<p>The husband of a friend of mine is a doctor and he ran into a ghost with no feet floating down the hallway at the hospital. \u00a0He smelled gangrene. \u00a0He said the ghost was just as surprised to see him as he was to see the ghost. \u00a0I&#8217;m not the only one seeing them.<\/p>\n<p>When my grandfather died, my mother said she saw him at the foot of her bed just standing there looking at her.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a ghost? \u00a0Do you believe in ghosts? \u00a0I really don&#8217;t believe in them, but what is happening at my house? \u00a0 The explanation must be supernatural.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a show on Netflix about a guy who one day started to see angels, demons and dead people. \u00a0It was causing him much angst. \u00a0He was really having a horrible time about it. \u00a0He went to a psychiatrist who said he was mentally stable. \u00a0He went to many people to have his brain studied. Everything was fine. \u00a0What makes one person see these things and another doesn&#8217;t? \u00a0 \u00a0He did say that angels are very tall, beautiful creatures with large wings and they sparkle. \u00a0That is what I think angels would look like.<\/p>\n<p>I believe there are things going on all around us that most of us cannot see. \u00a0There are battles being waged. \u00a0 I have heard that all time is going on at the same time, just in different dimensions. \u00a0Could it be that someone or something gets caught in the wrong dimension? \u00a0God sees it all from the very beginning of creation to the end of time as we know it. \u00a0 We only see a very tiny bit. \u00a0Hope I haven&#8217;t scared any of you because I&#8217;m not scared. Much. \u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am going somewhere completely different from what I usually write about. \u00a0There are things going on in this world that cannot be explained. \u00a0There are portents of things to come in what is happening all around us. \u00a0Those of us who have studied the Bible are not surprised by what is happening. \u00a0Did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-religion","category-family-memories","category-things-on-my-mind","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}