Two Vignettes About A Special Friend of Mine, Linda

During the first many years after I moved to Hannibal in 1991, a woman named Linda who works as a clerk at the Hannibal Courthouse was extremely kind to let me drop by often to visit with her and she soon learned from me my entire life's experience, including my discovery in 1989 that I have a genuine, scripturally pre-ordained destiny as per Revelation 11:3 and Revelation 12:5 and what I went through to nail down the truth (which I touch upon very rarely with Linda as I realized by 1991 that nearly all people are not able to relate to it). Over the years, I have given Linda copies of the correspondence that I have received and she tells me that she keeps them in a special place.

Linda is married, a few years older than I, very attractive and, of all the women who I have ever met or seen, including celebrities, Linda is the most elegant of them all and reminds one very much of Linda Evans, who played Krystal on the show 'Dynasty'. Linda is intelligent and has a keen wit and we have had much fun engaging with each other for many years until her office moved within the courthouse a few years ago and it was time for me to move on.

Sometime in 1992, I shared with Linda and her boss, Judge John Ogle, the following observation:

I told them, "Back in January of '89, when I learned of the total solar eclipse passing through central Europe, Iraq, and Iran on August 11th of 1999, many things went through my mind that day [Antichrist, Armageddon, Seven Years of Tribulation (1992-1999), etc.], but I eventually came to this one:

'Is that ALL there is to this world?'"

Linda paused for a moment before she burst out laughing. And it was at that moment when I realized that there are very few experiences for most men that are more pleasurable than when an attractive woman laughs at something that he says to her.




During one of my visits with Linda in late March, 1997, I told her of the following experience that I recently had had:

I had taken many photos of the Hale-Bopp Comet and had them developed at Columbia Photo in Columbia, MO where I was attending a three day engineers meeting with the agency that I used to work for (I was there as a retiree). I had doubles made of my roll of comet photos and I gave one to a college coed who was working there and she very much liked the beautiful photo.

I then chose to give her a Matthew 24:29-30a prophecy card, explained it to her, and I told her that I had been mailing this card with short letters to embassies of key foreign nations in Washington, D.C. since 1992, particularly the embassies of the Mideast nations.

I then wrote on her prophecy card, "Hebrews 13:2" and I told her (in a slow, deliberate voice) that this scripture says:

"Be sure........to show hospitality towards strangers.......because in that way some......have entertained angels.......without knowing it."

This coed's face lit up with a big smile and she said, "Oh, wow!"

And I said, "See ya," and then I left.


After I finished telling Linda this story, in a rather sharp and very condescending voice (and looking away from Linda), I told her, "Linda, I think.....(I took a deep breath, held it for a moment and then I released a deep sigh)........that there is a lesson to be learned by you here," then turning towards Linda.

Linda gracefully eased across her desk and slowly put her weight on her forearm and in a very feminine and aristocratic voice, Linda sighed and then asked me, "And what would that lesson be?"

I laughed and I told her, "Well, I would tell you but I'm afraid that it would go right over your head," motioning my arm over her head and then we both had a good laugh.

(If my manuscript ever gets published, I would add the preceeding vignettes to it.)