Poor Republican

Apparently God decided to appeal to my logical and scientific nature.  I had dismissed his first proof as my imagination or just really good luck.  Next I received visual yet logically and scientifically contradictory evidence.

He played with the weather.

I was working at yet another fancy, high-paying burger establishment.  I had a new girlfriend (this one my own age).  We were working the opening shift, and afterwords we were going over to her house.  Unfortunately, neither my grandparents nor her mother were available to pick us up and it was raining heavily.  More than that, there was thunder, lightning, even a little hail.  And we had about a two mile walk ahead of us.  Did I mention we had no umbrella?

We were going to wait for a ride, but it was going to be about two hours, so we decided to brave the weather.  As it turns out, we didn’t need to brave anything.

As we left the restaurant and started towards her house, it stopped raining.  We could see it was raining other places around us, but we had one of those little windows.  We hoped it would last.  It would.

As we walked up the street, I noticed that the way ahead of was staying clear.  Very nice!  We had to turn right and walk a while that way, so I figured we were going to get very wet, as it was raining in every direction except straight ahead.  We didn’t get wet.  The way ahead of us stayed clear, even though we were now traveling 90 degrees to the right.  It was still raining on either side of us, including where we would have been had we gone straight.

After another few minutes he had to turn left, back in the direction we were originally going.  Again, the clear path stayed ahead of us.  Not only that, but now it was actually sunny on the road in front of us.  There was a break in the clouds, and sunlight was shining down on the road.  But only directly ahead of us.  In every other direction, and not far away, it was still raining.  We could hear the thunder and see lightning.

It went on like this all the way home.  We changed direction several times to follow the neighborhood streets, turning left, right, back again.  No matter which way we went, the clear, sunlit path stayed right in front of us.  I started looking behind us, and sure enough, as we passed the street a hundred yards or less behind us grew dark and rain fell.  We were in a clear patch that was moving with us.

I even tried stopping for a few minutes, and the clear area stayed put until we started walking again.

We arrived home and within 30 seconds the clear patch closed up right in front of the house.  It began raining, then dropping hail.  Lightning flashed outside.

We just looked at each other.

I had that feeling again.  Something amazing had just happened, and I felt really strange.  I knew something big was happening to me.  I was a bit frightened by it all.  But I wasn’t quite there yet.  God must have known I was close though.

Just a little while later, He appealed to the side of me that recognizes patterns.  I’ve always been really good at picking out songs with very few notes, coding and decoding, things like that.  If there is a pattern to something, I usually pick it up very quickly.  I was being very slow this time.

So He pulled out something even I couldn’t deny or fail to see.

Tomorrow, appropriately, I will tell the last part.

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