If you’ve never been on an across country train ride, you haven’t lived yet. Seriously, if you’ve never been on a cross-country train ride, you’ve missed out on one of the most exhilarating experiences of a lifetime. That is, if you’re an extrovert like me. If you’re an introvert, maybe not; sit back watch the countryside and fall asleep. You’re boring. I don’t do boring. I can’t recall ever being attracted to boring.
I have to find the screenplay I wrote way back when, entitled, “The Southwest Chief.” I wrote the screenplay all along the Amtrak train route from Flagstaff, Arizona station into Chicago, Union Station. Another time I took an Amtrak train from Chicago to Flagstaff after my brother, the one I raised from infancy asked me to sell my van to him I had driven from Arizona to Chicago for his catering business. He gave me $4,000. down and promised me he would pay the remainder. I actually trusted him.
Once I arrived home in Arizona, he called and pressured me asking if he could have the van and not pay me the remainder he owed. He never paid me the several thousand he owed. He and his wife, without a Christian spiritual bone in their bodies, ripped me off. This is the same brother whose catering company I financed to get started. My little brother 12 years younger I put into business. The woman he married never welcomed me when I visited. She doesn’t care for Christian people is guess. I never once talked to her about religion. She stayed upstairs ordering her twin red head daughters of the Irish line of Kelly to serve her cottage cheese and beets while she lingered in bed. Very controlling woman. He married her because she was pregnant. She’d always stay upstairs in bed when any of our family was around too. Never interacted with any of us. Not much to say? Once she was telling my mom and me about how some guy in a car passing was telling her how beautiful she was. Nothing about her was beautiful including her bleached blonde hair. She had lost a few pounds maybe? She put it all back on.
You have to have a sense of humor. You really do. The other must have is Jesus because God helps all of us believers make sense of it all. All the people we come across in life that we have or have not relationships with. The Word of God, the Bible teaches us everything necessary to understand people. It can be mandatory that we actually stop giving a “rats ass” about these unbelievers, bad associations, though forgivable and we love them, doesn’t mean we want to hang out with them. At least, that’s the case with me. I have the three strikes you’re out policy. Rip me off once, disrespect me twice, but after the third harmful act; you’re out! Makes sense to me. I’m not going to set myself up for disappointment. Are you? As Christians we’re supposed to be peaceable with everyone, especially family and to have love for them. Does not mean we’re supposed to fall victim of their Christian persecution. To us they’re unlikable, unlovable; especially when they’re defrauding us. They have no perception or care about their Creator. whatsoever. Nothing! They will persecute you and believe they actually are wise. Walk away and don’t look back. Write about it all on a train ride. It’s great therapy.
We have decades of Bible knowledge, and they don’t even know God’s name. Do they?
Always Christian at Anne Fisher Foundation. Women Protecting Women and Children. Amen! Amen!
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