much like the old Tv show touched by an angel, I had once believed in God but decided His ways weren't the way I wanted to live so I lived a completely sinful life, and it led me to finally living in a junkyard and eating out of trash cans, I had made some really bad mistakes and had a gang out to get me, was chased a couple times running through yards, jumping over fences, running down aqua ducts and climbing through sewer pipes to escape. then one morning after a close call the night before, I was waiting at a bus stop and this heavy set man walks up to me and I could tell he was the chatty type so I kinda gave him the cold shoulder after he made some comment as to how we just missed the bus, since we could see the bus had just been to this stop and we could still see it going up the road. I acknowledged his observation and mumbled somthing like I might as well get somthing to eat, I had a few dollars so I went inside a fast food joint that was right behind the bus stop, he said "I think I will too" I was wishing he would of stayed there, but as I entered the restuarant he wasn't behind me and while for a second I wondered where he went I was happy he was gone. I ordered my food and when I got it, I decided to eat it inside since that guy was probably still outside, as I walked into the seating area there he was and he had a tray of food in front of him, I was dumbfounded "how did he get that food, he wasn't even at the counter"? just then he looked directly at me and said "why don't you join me" and if you knew me, the first thing I was thinking of was "____ ____ you fat ____ ____" but all of a sudden my body against my will moved and I was literally seated at his table and I had no idea what had just happened, and before I could even think he put out his hand and said "Hi my name is Bill" and completely flabbergasted I said Hi and before I could say anything else he looked at me with his eyes and said "I bet your from Michigan" and I was some 18 years ago, and I said yeah how do you know that?....and he laughed this big belly laugh and said "just a coinsedence" and then with his intense eyes looking directly into mine he said "I bet you have an older brother and an older sister, and I do....one of each so I said "how do you know that?" and he laughed again and said "just a lucky guess" well now I was pretty freaked out and it was even going to get worse because he began answering questions as I was thinking them in my head, I thought is this guy gay or somthing and he responded listen I'm not gay and this and that, and this happened about few times and he could see I was getting very nervous about it, then he asked me when was the last time I had talked with my parents, and I was thinking "who was this guy" I hadn't talked with my parents in three years, since I was living completely against the ways I was raised. and he was beginning to pull on some heart strings and I could feel a little tear welling up in my eye, so I had to get out of there, I remember him telling me before I left "well be careful" and I thought why would a stranger say that? and what the _____just happened, I never would have allowed anyone to talk to me that way, making me feel all sensitive like that, I watched a guy get mauled by a pitbull while eating my lunch, when people asked me why I didn't help him I calmly exclaimed I didn't want my food to get cold. I was a cold heartless criminal, if you knew me before you would wonder how I didn't kick that guy through the window. It was about a couple weeks later and this gang situation was getting worse, they were gathering outside the junkyard where I lived and discussing their options, I went inside one of the garages and all of a sudden I heard this voice and its really hard to explain but it was like whole sentences were dropped into my head but I could hear them, First of all what was strange is they were calling my birth name, and not the name I had taken on years ago, I hadn't even had someone call me that name for 13 yrs and I answered the voice "great I'm hearing voices I think I'm finally losing my mind"....your not losing your mind but you are in great danger the people outside are planning to kill you"......"ahhh great who are you"? I asked...."Rick I'm an angel and I'm here to help you".....Ohh don't say that! of all the people on this planet I'm least deserving of any help from an angel"...."yes your right about that but do you know how many people have been praying for you".....my respones "Ahh I don't want to hear this" as my stomach is now dropping then the angel says "Rick nothing moves an angel faster than the prayers of a little girl, your niece has been praying for you and thats why I'm here" It was that sentence that pushed me over the edge I started bawling on the floor thinking I am completely losing my mind, thinking how unworthy I am to be saved, that somehow God still loved me, I said "I can't believe I'm talking to an angel" and the voice returned "well it wouldn't be the first time and He laughed that big belly laugh and it was like I was allowed to reconize the voice and I exclaimed "BILL" and he said remember this Rick theres no such thing as luck and theres no such thing as coinsedence......and I recalled what had happened in our previous encounter, I then realized all my sin it was sickning to know that everything had been witnessed that God had seen it all, I repented for all my sin and promised God I would try to live for Him, and all of a sudden it was like a giant unseen hand reached inside my chest and pulled out all these evil spirits and I could literally hear them scream, they were yelling at the top of their lungs all the lies they had once whispered in my ear, things they said using my own voice, to make it seem they were my ideas and my thoughts......but soon they were gone and the last thing Bill said was I have a plan to get you out of there, and about an hour later the junkyards owners son came back there and said how would you like to go to Michigan tommorow and I couldn't believe it, because I didn't have any more money and had no idea how I was going to get out of there.........I've been completly transformed, If you knew me before even you would praise God.
Let me assure you, God is displeased by atheism. It is the religion of hate and destruction and its tenets are Communism, its political expression with the likes of Stalin and Kim as the Popes.
Okay, I admit I got a little carried away.
