For more than half of
my life I search for God's truth but it appeared like it was always around the corner...

It seem to run away and escape me.

I felt like the rabbit and the proverbial carrot,

or maybe the frustrated greyhound 𝐬treaking around the racetrack chasing something he would never catch.

Now, I was raised southern baptist as a young kid. And some people call southern baptist followers,

Holy rollers.

Because sometimes
when I was attending church

and the pastor called to the congregation to come down and be saved,

without fail somebody would get the holy ghost.

They started out twitching,

gyrating,

more twitching,

eyes rolling.

Pretty soon they were
on the church floor aisles rolling and twitching all over the place!

Rolling, squirming and yelling,

lots of yelling!

Now I was just a little kid sitting there in wide eye astonishment,

I'd ask my grandmother what they were doing?

She always answer me
the same way:

"Shut Up Boy!"

But Grandma,

why are they rolling around in the aisles?

She would say,

"Don't Sass me boy!"

Never got a straight answer from her...

I remember on another occasion the church was having communion and the choir was singing.

They were passing out crackers and as I was munching on a cracker
I said this is good but where is the cheese?

My grandmother said :

What's Wrong with you boy!

I said:

Well, as they were coming down the aisles I heard them singing,

'Bringing In The Cheese'

My grandmother said:

Boy,

they wasn't singing bringing in the cheese, that's an old hymm called,

'Bringing In The Sheaves'

I was so disappointed,

okay

so back to the holy rollers...

There came another day at church during the sermon

when a nice older woman overheard me asking my grandmother the same questions.

She leaned over towards me and whispered, listen here son, they got the

Holy Ghost.

The Holy Ghost I cried,

I trembled as I replied,

is he going to get me?

Looking around the aisles apprehensively, there didn't appear to be a ghost or anything out of the ordinary.

The elderly woman said,
No son, it's kind of difficult to explain to a young one,

but nothing is going to get you.

Whew!

Well that was a big relief,

anyway, even though the Holy rollers appeared to be in another world at times,

they always seem to miraculously recover when church services were over.

As I grew older I turned away from my church beliefs and eventually became an atheist for awhile,

but, I was deceiving myself!

Plain and simple,
I studied quite a few religions,

Buddhism
Catholic
Christianity
Baptist (Yes again)
Protestant
Sumerian
Aztec

It seemed like they all had nuggets of the truth

but none of them had the total truth or answers for me.

I investigated

numerology
tarot card reading
psychic abilities
crystal reading
etc...

Boring and no, they didn't have the truth either.

Nobody had the truth or Gold mine!

So I ask myself where is the truth?

Who has the truth?

The truth is out there,

where is the Goldmine?

I was an atheist then,
so I was in hind sight, completely lost!

Consequently, I thought
I needed alternative answers,

well, it was a fruitless search in the end of course.

I investigated several theories as to how life was created on earth

but never really bought into any of the theories.

The Big Bang Theory?

At its simplest, it says the universe as we know it started with a small singularity, or it was a hit television series,

that suddenly inflated over the next 13.8 billion years into the cosmos that we know today.

All involving electrons, neutrons, protons...etc...

Which then suddenly exploded into our World today, including cars, airplanes and girfriends.

No!

That Didn't Happen!

Descended From Apes?

Well?

Supposedly we share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees,

it apparently lived between 8 and 6 million years ago, but humans and chimpanzees evolved differently from that same ancestor.

Perhaps?

Perhaps not, but I have met some people who act like big apes!

So, who was that Ancestor?

The missing Link?

Was It Bigfoot?

A Yeti?

A prehistoric giant chimpanzee?

Hell Naw!

No Way!

Not No How!

Hmm... so what's next?

Aliens Create Humanity?

Are You Serious?

So aliens create humans as a slave race to do their bidding,

to wash their laundry, iron their space suits and bring them beer?

Wine coolers?

Hell No!

No!

I told myself, well humans didn't create themselves so

Who Am I?

Who created me?

Where is the Truth?

Who is the goldmine?

God!

God is the Creator

The Savior

The Truth

God Is That Goldmine!

Everyone and everything else in your world might be nuggets.

Or if you don't desire or like some of them,

they might not qualify
as gold nuggets in your daily world.

And I also wouldn't speculate as to what terms might come to your wonderful minds.

Personally, I often wonder why some people are in my life?

Because there doesn't appear to be any useful or logical reason why they are there,

they are just there!

As a matter of fact, some of them are downright annoying or worse.

Why are they in my life?

Have you ever wondered that?

Why?

But then I tell myself
that maybe I am just as annoying to them or worse,

It takes two to tangle.

Hmm...

Maybe I'm not a gold nugget?

Naw!

I am a gold nugget but
the way this world is
going with the pandemic,
wars, poverty, starvation.

Crooked politicans, poor, crime, racism, injustice, exactly what can we do about it?

Positive, speaks an inner voice,

Be Positive,

Know That

God's Divine Love Shall Heal This Land

The Light Of Christ Is The Master Plan

He Will Command The Dark Shadows To Flee

And By The Grace Of God Say Unto Thee:

'I Am'

'The Light Of God That Never Fails'

And I Have Banished All
Evil Returning It To Hell!

Only Thy God Is The

Light

Glory

Love

And

Saviour

Of

All

Humanity

Come Final

Judgement

Day....

© Charles Kemp