Glass Gloves

Okay, so awhile back I had written about this bizarre numerological sequence (28 hits) chasing me around kind of like in that recent movie about building an Ark (35 hits). Anyway, I figured no worries, I’ll figure it out one day - just let it come to me.

Anyway, a potential solution to the problem may have been found. I’m sort of weirded out at the moment, because it seems to fit to a tee what I have been experiencing for well over 6.5 months now. Not sure what to make of this.

I do know that every time, I’ve tried to find a contradiction in the scriptures I’ve managed to find a solution, but this is bigger. I’ve got bigger questions now, more spiritual in nature no longer doctrinal. Part of me is saying that there is a MUCH bigger level of awareness waiting than I could have never possible imagined, and then part of me is screaming … warning warning .. do not go to the forbidden zone you might start yelling like Charleton Heston in the movie “Planet of the Apes” after he discovers the Statue of Liberty in the “forbidden zone” and that we as a collective figured out how to nuke ourselves into oblivion or something.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhh They Blew it Up!

What Kingdom was Jesus always referring to that the Pharisees were preventing people from entering? There are many different theological theories on this. I’ve currently narrowed it down to one of two possibilities not necessarily mutually exclusive - that is , a 1000 year reign of the Son of God (although Physical or Spiritual I’m not sure yet) AND the here and now - that is our very existence now. Something like being able to merge on a quantum level with God, not much different from what Enoch pulled off.

Some interesting things going on in Quantum Physics that suggest that consciousness and the physical universe are in fact, interrelated. Go figure… the great masters have been telling us that for thousands of years already. Science has also suggested that the universe that we live in had a beginning and that energy = matter. Go figure…
Why were the Apostles recorded to have wacky manifestations of miracles and what not, yet the “power” of God seems to now be chalked up to being nothing, but sheer coincidence now a days? I know there are medical miracles. Unexplainable and seemingly random recoveries from things, that defy all odds and what we know. I believe I read somewhere, that in the latter days that He would pour out His Spirit on ALL sons and daughters. Provided that we are actually in the latter days, then…..
I know there is a lot of fake manifestations of the power of God out there. I was left directed to the tail end of Jeremiah 23 the other day. It spoke of false prophets. Hmmm… I couldn’t figure it out. Do I think myself a prophet Shohn boy? No… but weird stuff is going on for sure and I’ve think I’ve been extremely diligent in making sure that I’m not deluding myself - putting controls in place, etc. just to be sure that I’m not hunting for stuff and pysching myself up into something that is a creation of my own mind.

Anyway…. here is a potential solution from a site which calls itself (Crystalinks???) which has me completely weirded out:
Synchronicities bring people to Crystalinks (33 hits) … which takes them on all sorts of journeys into awareness. Many people the numbers 11:11 or derivatives of it the number 1 and seek information about it. This takes them to my file 11:11 (29 hits) as on and on they go reading through interconnected files to understand their journey and that of humanity which is the focus of Crystalinks.

Yup, that was me. What’s up with this 1122 business….

Currently, I am still bound by various religious “doctrine” and what not that I have been taught, so it is natural I guess to still be skeptical, but I do know that as I read that paragraph my whole body seized up, I had muscle spasms all over, and some goose bumps here and there. It freaked me out that other people had similar experiences I guess.
I guess it all goes back to the question i asked mom when I was about three years old. Why are we (the collective) here?

Perhaps this guy depicted in an Australian aborigine cave painting thousands of years old has an answer?

The site listed earlier also mentioned that “Automatic writing is used in Spiritualism and the New Age movement as a form of channeling. One of the best-known automatic writers was Helene Smith, an early 20th century psychic who felt that her automatic writing was the attempt of Martians to communicate with Earth. She claimed she could translate their Martian language into French.” What? Maybe they are the same Martians depicted in the painting above?
Well hopefully, I won’t be attempting to join the intellectual elite from the planet Ogo any time soon in some vain effort to overthrow the subjugated hordes of King Rasha …. orrrr something like that.

One thing is for sure, at this juncture is seems like my lovely wife has recently learned how to speak Klingon. As I understand it, there is no word for “Hello”, in Klingon, instead the normal “hello” used in English is instead replaced with “What do you want?”. Fun stuff!

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Hey Bob…

Yeah.

Two girls born on the same day by the same parents walked into a job site to seek out employment. Each of them presented their respective resumes and the receptionist noted that they were born on the same day, looked exactly alike, and had the same parents. The receptionist asked…. are you two twins?

They both responded ”No.” and were being honest.

How can this be?

Don’t cheat. 

Bob?

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Well. Today is a new day. I had spoken with my potentially soon to be ex-sister in law and my potentially soon to be ex-father in law yesterday. Fun with Xs. If this thing goes through, there will be like 243 Xs involved somehow. Ex-grandfather in law for her, ex grand father in law for me. Ex - step grandfather in laws. I could go on and on just like Bubba about shrimp in the movie Forest Gump.  Potentially soon to be Ex-crazy aunt always singing the ol’ American pledge of allegience instead of the prayer at Thanksgiving.
Well, get this. The ol’ potentially soon to be ex-father in law informed me that him and his wife are starting to get along now. Can anyone say “Huh?”. Where did that come from? What in the world? Crazy emotional relationship dynamics coupled with sometimes annoying contiuum of space and time created for our feeble minds to barely conceptualize the spiritual world that our Savior hath made. Patience, young grasshopper.
He told me his secret was that he honestly has no idea whether or not they are going to get back together and just quit worrying about it. It had been slow in coming. My potentially soon to be ex-wife and I have been somewhat talking. A minute there. 5 minutes there. Can we go on a date? How bout a date dang it? Oh, can we go on a date? I want to buy you milk and cookies.
I’m pretty sure that a date will happen in the not too distant future. Perhaps after we are officially divorced. I suspect from a worldly point of view that the divorce will allow her to “breathe” emotionally and say “I told you so”. One really big “I told you so” I might add. It is in a way a way for her to save face and teach the ol’ Shohn some sort of perverted lesson in humility I suppose. I would have preferred her to have put me in a head lock and given me a couple of kidney shots instead, but I digress.
She has given many things away in our conversations that have subtly alluded to this. Also, I have noted that she is still cycling up and down. I thought I would share what i think I have learned. There seems to be this up and down emotional thing that she experiences. Part of it just due to being a woman I guess, part of it due to her past, our present situation, the children, etc. Lots of variables in there. Feminists and analytical gals, that last part does not apply to you okay!
Public confession from about a week ago: I had asked one girl I know to set me up with one of her friends for a date about a week ago when I had more or less given up on me wife. I reached a really really low point. Started getting angry for once. I felt a huge cow of resentment growing. Down Betsy.

I asked her.. “Hey - do you know any nice single 20 something gals - maybe even with a child already that are emotional disorder free?” Her comment back was “Shohn - I hate to break it to you, but I’d venture a guess that at least 50% of women have some sort of emotional disorder.”  Yeah, one of my friends told me that at one point, but I thought it was junk. I’ve worked with plenty of women in the work force who are even keel and aren’t all up and down style.
Anyway, the point to this is that there seem to be optimum times to ask certain things. An act of love is to discern what mood she is in, and not ask oh… I don’t know… for a date when she is in a bad mood. When I speak to her, I can gather her mood in about a second and a half from her voice.

The little stop cross out sign above is drawn at a point where it is generally not a good idea to ask for that date.  See the Happy curve and then the sad curve? No date asking when potentially soon to be ex-wife reaches sad or angry part of curve. Bad idea. Wait until she reach happy part of curve. That much better idea.
I think a similar concept will apply to those of you whose wives are still living with ya. According to my gal friend (not girlfriend), 50% of women are just that way. The challenge for us generally emotionally level men is to recognize this as perhaps just part of the nature of our object of affection. Truly then, the act of love - of agape is become better at not pushing those pesky buttons during those times. Hopefully, the wife will reciprocate. It takes time sometimes. In my case, 6 months so far to even get a smile and happy voice out of me wife. 6 months -of crying, prayer, getting on my knees, followed by another 6 months of denial, anger, resentment, followed by a certain peace that is unexplainable, ….. all to earn the prize of one little X and O on a date in the not too distanct future.

The sad part is this. I’m reasonably sure we can get a date now. The timing is still a bit off, but she has left that door open, and I’m reasonably sure that it isn’t completely pyschological warfare in preparation for cleaning my clock in a divorce court. At the same time though, she started being nice when I started pushing her off. Go away evil potentially soon to be ex-wife always reversing on your committments. She’d say “What’s wrong?” - “What’s wrong?”. Ohhhh please. Leave me alone.

Can I take you on a date about a week later. I’ll think about it.

Can I get a rain check? Yes.

Oh so much I want X and Os from currently cold doppleganger of my wife. Wife are you in there? Where are you? Are you inside there somewhere? Hello…. nothing but echoes and the occasional smile and allusion to a date.

Well if this thing goes through, at least I won’t have to worry about getting undesired Xs and Os from crazy potentially soon to be ex-aunt in law with large amount of hair growing from her ummm… nevermind. That is one reason to be thankful! See good in bad!
I’ve got another reason to be really joyful and happy today. The new Portishead album came out! Yay! Love Portishead! Oh yeah, well if you love Portishead then why don’t you marry their singer Shohn?

I’m thinking about it. Perhaps Ms. Gibbons if not already taken will be my next future ex-wife? We would at least like the same kind of music. That’s as good a place to start as any I suppose.
On a scriptural note, I’ve been very much focused on Numbers 13 - 14 starting yesterday. Good medicine for doubt. Maybe Ms. Gibbons can read it to me with that oh so beautiful voice of hers.

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Gen 17:9 And Elohim said to Aḇraham, “As for you, guard My covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

Gen 17:10 “This is My covenant which you guard between Me and you, and your seed after you: Every male child among you is to be circumcised.

Gen 17:11 “And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall become a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Gen 17:12 “And a son of eight days is circumcised by you, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with silver from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

Gen 17:13 “He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your silver, has to be circumcised. So shall My covenant be in your flesh, for an everlasting covenant.

Gen 17:14 “And an uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, his life shall be cut off from his people – he has broken My covenant.”

Okay, so let’s replay this scene, but from Abraham’s servant’s perspective.

Servant A:

You’re going to do what to my penis?

Servant B:

Easy with the knife there fella.

Servant C:

Stay away from the equipment, bub.

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I had something rather interesting happen to me today that I found slightly amusing. So there I was outside the office having a nice little smoke break. Yeah, I know, I’ve quite about 100 times. Anyway, this guy makes a b-line for me, his clothes are bit disheveled, clearly his purpose is to extract either some change or a smoke from me. I used to work in downtown where many a supposed homeless man prospered from my bleeding heart. So I recognize it right away.

It is just another pattern I guess.

Let’s see what he wants. Is it money, tell me a great story about how needs only a dollar more for a bus ticket, how he is no longer on drugs, or he needs a dollar to go see his son, the list goes on. Now make no mistake, some of those guys have very real stories, but I’ve found that a number of them just make stuff up. Yeah, I give em money anyway - shame on me for supporting their lifestyle, but I figure there has to be one in a hundred who actually needs the money, had a real story, and many of them are mentally ill. I’ve seen some that swat at stuff that isn’t there before.
Some of the more inventive homeless folk in Houston are now asking for money to supply such high ambitions as a college fund for their kids and even just honest - Need money for Beer! I really feel sorry for them though. Imagine being caught up in something like that and not having the will and sometimes the ability to break out of the cycle. What went wrong? I have to admit though, that sometimes I envy these folks a bit. The only thing they really have to worry about is where to sleep and where their next meal comes from.
Well anyway here goes the rest of the story:

Disheveled clothes man: Hey man can I have a cigarette?

Smoke break guy: I guess so.

Disheveled clothes man: How about two, I’ve got a quarter.

Smoke break guy thinks to himself, okay, you don’t have to buy them if I’m giving them to you, but maybe this is some kind of pride thing.

Smoke break guy: Well, you keep that, here’s a couple of smokes.

Disheveled clothes man: Thanks!

Disheveled clothes man: God bless Vietnam vets man, that’s why they’re not fat like you.

Smoke break guy: Puzzled look.

Disheveled clothes man: Realizes what he just said. Big koolaid smile. Slight stutter for split second.
Disheveled clothes man: Continues to smile, But, that’s healthy, take care.

Disheveled clothes man makes haste!

Smoke break guy thinking to himself: You seem a tad bit young to have been in the war man. Very clever though, you never said you were in the war.
Smoke break guy: Bursts out into laughter.

That guy just made my day! To make matters even funnier though, a slim fit woman comes jogging by with her athletic gear on immediately after this whole incident. This is Texas - it is HOT outside right now. I can only imagine how much tougher than me she is to be running in 105 degree heat! If I said the wrong thing, I imagine this girl would clean the pavement with my rear end.
I look up at the sky and say to our Father - so what? You’re saying I’m fat too?

I promptly relayed this story to my wife, but she didn’t seem to appreciate the inherent humor in it. She also says I’m not fat, but I think she’s looking at me through a different set of goggles than the person who just paid me a wonderful compliment and got two of my smokes for free!
Perspective baby.
Still though, there is a deeper lesson here, and that is the one of the downward spiral not unlike what our homeless friend had been experiencing for some time. The same pattern can apply in marital disputes. What happens is the two of you, though you are supposed to act like one, became selfish somehow. It happens. I do it all the time and just keep working towards perfection, but I’m a long way away. He did this, she did this, he did this, from an outsider it looks like two little kids fighting. One of the kids needs to have a maturity growth moment to pull the other one out of the argument, or you could always just have mom and dad stop the fight. Some folks do this for 20-30 years and still never figure it out. Never make it to stage 3 in the marriage that is.
That makes me wonder though. When my children decide they want to argue over something, I’ve found that one of the most effective cures is to have them both sit down and face each other. Eventually, one will smile, and the fight is over about 10 seconds later. I wonder if this could somehow work in a marital argument? I know I mentioned the joke tactic before, but there is just something really powerful about a smile, or staying mad at someone who is being nice to you. It is hard to do, eventually the desire to stay angry can’t stay as long as there is a smile in the way. A smirk on the other hand…. get ready for WWIII. People are so funny!

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“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
- Socrates

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I was looking for other sites on the Internet that might discuss “Glass Gloves” (see about) to try and get this site promoted. I ran across a rather curious discussion on a site called Slashdot (nerd site), which is a site I used to frequent daily.

The discussion was about robots that walk on water. Eventually the discussion (7 hits) turned to the miracle of Jesus walking on water. What greater place for a debate on miracles than a site with an audience of nerds some believers some not. Do miracles really happen - and more importantly why is this relevant to saving your marriage? This is actually important for the most special of you folks out there - the spouse who has completely given up on the marriage. This is where my spouse was at and a miracle did in fact save my marriage. If you’ve given up on God, then it may be time to come back. If you never believed in the first place, then now is the time.

I thought the italicized joke from the discussion was worth posting since it illustrates the power of God in a funny way.

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