Your experience with a demon entity entering and leaving you when you so vociferously refused to engage with it but leaving you drained and inwardly focused reminds me of my experience with meeting evil when I was working at the 100 Mile House Free Press in charge of the weekly community pages. One day, a tall stern looking man came into my office and said he was a reverend of some sort and would like to write a column in my pages. He was insistent as he glared at me trying to meet my eyes. He gave me the creeps, and I politely thanked him for his offer but refused to engage him. He sort of stormed out, and I hoped that would be the end of it. A week later a letter arrived specifically for me. I opened it, and as soon as I touched the letter my hand burned and I began shaking. Scared out of my wits I dashed into our publisher's office. Fred took the letter, calmed me down and said he would take care of it and sent me home. There is evil all around us (as there is blessing and goodness), but we don't have to engage with it. Our job is to ensure that our protective shield is firmly in place around us so no evil can ever come that close to us again. Thank you for your edifying and elucidating stories straight from your heart...
I know evil like this exists, but I never permitted myself to stick around long enough to experience it that deeply.
I think of myself as a loving person, but I am also innately distrustful. Which is why I could never buy in to all that EDL was pitching, even though I have a natural gift of removing pain and facilitating healing with my hands, similar to what I understand the process of atunement to be.
I am saddened that you had to look so deeply into the cesspool of evil, but I am glad you escaped and survived, and were able to write about it. It was instructive to read this. Thank you, Sandy. God Bless You!
Excellent storytelling Sandy, and a captivating conclusion to the series. The first person narrative drew me in and held me in the darkness of your journey, and the life force that eventually drew you out. When we secularize evil, as if a dietary choice or the like, we miss the depth and destructiveness that awaits the naive. As William Stafford once wrote, "the darkness around us is deep." I'm glad you made it and thankful for the quality of your writing.
I feel as if I've just had a narrow escape!
Your experience with a demon entity entering and leaving you when you so vociferously refused to engage with it but leaving you drained and inwardly focused reminds me of my experience with meeting evil when I was working at the 100 Mile House Free Press in charge of the weekly community pages. One day, a tall stern looking man came into my office and said he was a reverend of some sort and would like to write a column in my pages. He was insistent as he glared at me trying to meet my eyes. He gave me the creeps, and I politely thanked him for his offer but refused to engage him. He sort of stormed out, and I hoped that would be the end of it. A week later a letter arrived specifically for me. I opened it, and as soon as I touched the letter my hand burned and I began shaking. Scared out of my wits I dashed into our publisher's office. Fred took the letter, calmed me down and said he would take care of it and sent me home. There is evil all around us (as there is blessing and goodness), but we don't have to engage with it. Our job is to ensure that our protective shield is firmly in place around us so no evil can ever come that close to us again. Thank you for your edifying and elucidating stories straight from your heart...
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I know evil like this exists, but I never permitted myself to stick around long enough to experience it that deeply.
I think of myself as a loving person, but I am also innately distrustful. Which is why I could never buy in to all that EDL was pitching, even though I have a natural gift of removing pain and facilitating healing with my hands, similar to what I understand the process of atunement to be.
I am saddened that you had to look so deeply into the cesspool of evil, but I am glad you escaped and survived, and were able to write about it. It was instructive to read this. Thank you, Sandy. God Bless You!
Excellent storytelling Sandy, and a captivating conclusion to the series. The first person narrative drew me in and held me in the darkness of your journey, and the life force that eventually drew you out. When we secularize evil, as if a dietary choice or the like, we miss the depth and destructiveness that awaits the naive. As William Stafford once wrote, "the darkness around us is deep." I'm glad you made it and thankful for the quality of your writing.