Lost in BSG 75

I'm hooked, I admit it!

 Judy and I picked up a copy of the first Season of Battlestar Galactica and it has been our nighttime fare ever since. 

This show has so many parallels to life today. A civilization adrift in a maze of time and space. There is a real enemy that persues them relentlessly. (Guess who?) There are also enemies who look like friends and friends who may be Cylons (Mutant, evolved AI robots in disguise)

 Who needs regular TV when you can track these homeless raiders through space as they look for their elusive home called Earth. Some don't even believe it exists! Does it? We don't know yet, at least WE don't we are on season three and diggin it.

Call it pure Sci-fi excape-ism  and call it well done. It is a world so real that I lay awake at night wondering how the human race is going to make it.   (I privately wonder that in real life too!)

So we remain lost in BSG 75!  The real world...well thank God for His Son Jesus that will light the way faithfully every day. Look out Cylons!

The comfort of hands

A couple of weeks ago i was visiting a simple church meeting, It was in a room in the back of a store converted for just this purpose. After the meeting, there was an invitation for prayer. Kind of an old fashioned (but not irrelevant) "hot seat." (It even had flames painted on it.)  

Im old pentacostal history there was a thing called "praying through." A person would sit on the "hotseat" and pray, with the help of others laying their hands  on them and continue until the breakthrough happened. Usually it was the person feeling Gods presence and knowing he was going to be with them. There is something to be said for persistence in prayer!

Anyway, being weary from the many encounters with emotionally needy people that week I said "Would you please pray for me?"

 I went and sat on the "hotseat" and within a few very short moments there were perhaps a dozen hands on my shoulders, neck, head and arms. Wow! There was instant comfort being transfered to my body and to my heart. 

I felt the presence of the Lord and also the presence of loving people. My entire being began to melt into a peaceful state of joy, peace,  affirmation and just plain comfortable relaxation. 

This was the first time I have ever come away from a prayer time just thanking the Lord for the Love of His people, communicated in this amazing way. 

Lord thank you for the comfort of loving hands!