Dear John, What a wonderful thing you do.  Whenever I open up Five Doves and go to the current date, I always look to see if you have written something first.  I cannot wait to meet you, my brother.  You are such an important part of my life and I have never had the privilege of truly meeting you.  Thank you so much for Five Doves.

            I have to tell you what happened to me last night.  I had come home from a long day at work and was doing my 30 minutes on the treadmill we have in a corner of our family room.  It is basically a nightly ritual.  I usually listen to Bible teachers on tape but lately I have been listening to an audio book.  It is from the Christian author Joel Rosenberg.  It was a tense moment in the book where the hero is almost face to face with terrorists.  The terrorists are planning to nuke Israel and have sent a death squad to try to assassinate the U.S. President.  I am about 20 minutes into the workout and am feeling tired and maybe a little punchy.  My mind wanders briefly and that part of my brain that keeps me on schedule and organized reminds me to take a shower immediately after the workout.  I want to keep on track and not lose focus.  But as soon as I think about the post treadmill activities, I have this feeling overwhelm me and I hear (not out loud) “You have to get all primped up for the wedding.”  I turn off my tape and try to figure out what is happening.  I am riding this swelling wave of excitement but my mind is all perplexed.  I am thinking “What wedding?”  I do not have a wedding I am going to.  It’s funny how we have conversations with ourselves.  I am feeling all giddy and happy and excited while my logical mind is wondering what just happened.  But I have this inexplicable rush and excitement.  I cannot even explain to anyone how excited I was.  I felt all overwhelmed but perplexed at the same time.

            I come from a background of studying at two different universities here in the U.S.  I have studied anthropology, archaeology, the law, marine biology, philosophy and, for fun, literature.  I am generally not an excitable person.  I wish I could explain it better.  But suddenly I was caught up in a feeling of pure joy and feeling as if I were compelled to prepare physically for a wedding – my wedding.  Let me say here that my husband and I have been married over 30 years.  I am no giddy teenager but I felt like the happiest person on earth last night on my treadmill.  Who knew exercise could be so much fun?  All kidding aside, I did want to tell you about it.  Maybe all the rapture talk at Five Doves has gotten to me but I have never felt like this before.  I have been actively watching for the rapture for almost 30 years.

            I have looked forward to many, many rapture dates and have had the feeling like it would be nice if it happened and was looking forward to the day we will actually see the Lord (when we see Him, we will be like Him – Oh wow) but I have never felt like this.  I am certainly not saying that I know beyond a doubt that the rapture will happen in a week or whatever but this is the most excited I have been in my life.  My logical mind is saying to remain circumspect but in my spirit, I am jumping for joy.  What fun!

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Thanks for kind words, Carol. Let us get READY regardless whether the Lord  comes next week or this year!
John