Other than the banners, signs, neon arrows and the psychic who lived inside, it was a very ordinary house.
Seeing this house made me wonder how someone enters the psychic vocation. Do you have to have license or a permit? Is there an online training course? I suppose that since I do not know the answers to these questions intuitively, it does not matter all that much.
I would have loved to have been there when this woman decided to become a psychic...
“Honey, do you remember that time a couple of years ago that you and I were watching American Idol and I told you that Sanjia was not going to win? Well, remember how I was right about that? I have been thinking that I might have psychic powers and we already have all these dangling beads and black lights, maybe I should start my own business.”
It is even more perplexing that she has stayed in business. I guess humans have a need to know what’s going to happen. We want to know the future and explain the past. We want answers to questions like, "Why did this event or that tragedy happen?" and "What is going to happen when I die?" or "How will the earth end?'
Preachers often sell Christianity as a ticket into a future party. "This act, prayer, belief, or practice will get you into heaven." While partly true, this teaching is extremely dangerous if it is the only teaching offered.
Since I believe that Christianity is not a man made religion, I do not think it answers man made questions. Many Christians, since they are men, try to answer these questions and will manipulate scripture to do so, but this is not what Christ came to achieve (if it were, he would have answered more of the questions we asked him).
Christ does not offer many explanations about tragedies, or predictions of the future. He tells us not to concern ourselves with tomorrow because today has enough troubles of its own.
Christians should value today. We should live in this present moment. We should experience the relationships around us right now.
Since I believe that Christianity is not a man made religion, I do not think it answers man made questions. Many Christians, since they are men, try to answer these questions and will manipulate scripture to do so, but this is not what Christ came to achieve (if it were, he would have answered more of the questions we asked him).
Christ does not offer many explanations about tragedies, or predictions of the future. He tells us not to concern ourselves with tomorrow because today has enough troubles of its own.
Christians should value today. We should live in this present moment. We should experience the relationships around us right now.
When Peter was freed from prison, he was told, "Go stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of the this new life."
If we are only telling others about the future, if we are only Christian psychics selling insights into what is going to happen, then we have missed the full message. We have missed the life that is promised for the present.
A life full of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
