The worst part is I have to wear this medical Velcro-strap, blue-and-white sandal that forces me to walk off-kilter. I look like a cross between Frankenstein, Peter Lorre and Peg Leg. Of course, it sets off all the back muscles, not to mention my knee, calf and ankle on the opposite leg.
I was in the grocery store this afternoon clunking around with the shoe when a woman running one of the free-food sample carts barked out, ‘Get out of that thing as soon as you can!”
She told me wearing one of those sandals for 19 weeks after a toe-break (she had a real slow-heal because of diabetes) gave her permanent hip and lower back problems. She warned me to run, not walk, from the experts who say I’ve got to keep this shoe on.
To add to my woes, I picked up a nasty case of swimmer’s ear last week. Basically, my ear started itching like mad and then I woke up one morning to find it had swollen shut. The pain was near-excruciating at intervals. The itching was major intense but I couldn’t do anything to alleviate it. And I hadn’t been in any body of water since the summer Bible conference in mid-July!
Another unforeseeable frustration came on Labor Day when my Dell Inspiron laptop of four years suddenly stopped responding to any programs. It’s like it just went brain dead and is now in a vegetative state. This laptop was my constant companion so it’s like losing a friend.
A new laptop is on order from Amazon and will arrive mid-week. I went back to IBM’s Lenovo since I had such good fortune with a ThinkPad all through my NYC years and it was only when someone broke into my car in Chicago that I had to move on.
Right now, I’m writing on an ancient HP with Windows XP. At least my mom gave me the okay (a little reluctantly I must say) to use her brand-new Dell to enjoy the morning services (including the WYLL radio program and John Verstegen on UStream following Shorewood’s messages).
I’m working on a new article to post tomorrow, but here’s a few more interesting passages from bestseller prophecy author Dave Hunt’s book, A Woman Rides the Beast: The Roman Catholic Church and the Last Days.
He writes, “The Tower of Babel fills the official poster for the 12-nation United Europe. Circling above the unfinished tower are 12 stars. Unlike those on the American flag, however, these are upside down, thus forming the pentagram of classic occultism. The pentagram, with its two ‘horns’ pointing upward and its ‘beard’ downward, is also known as the Goat of Mendes, or Baphomet, a symbol of Satan.”
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In his chapter entitled Apostasy and Ecumenism, Hunt writes, “Catholicism has become the ecumenical leader in a move to unite not only the ‘separated brethren’ of Protestantism but all of the world’s religions in a new world church . . .
“One finds every shade of New Age, occult, and mystical belief inside the Roman Catholic Church itself . . . One of John Paul II’s most amazing feats was the gathering at
“Praying together were snake worshippers, fire worshippers, spiritists, animists, North American witch doctors, Buddhists, Muslims, and Hindus, as well as ‘Christians’ and Catholics.
“The pope declared that all were ‘praying to the same God.’ On that occasion the pope allowed his good friend the Dalai Lama to replace the cross with Buddha on the altar of St. Peter’s church in
“The two most urgent causes, which will play an important part in uniting the world, are ecology and peace. It is increasingly believed that ‘peace’ will be achieved by prayer to some higher power, and ‘any god will do,’ as Masonry says . . .
“It is amazing to what extent those who call themselves Christians are able to justify, for the cause of peace and ecological wholeness, participation in religious practices with those of all religions.”
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