In achapter of Proverbs there's something interesting in there. Lower down in the chapter, there's a sentence says:
Can you build a fire in your lap and not burn your pants?
Can you walk barefoot on hot coals and not get blisters?
And just like with other chapters in Proverbs I've listened to this over and over and over I get something out of it every time I hear the chapter.
I know somebody who has walked across hot coals and not gotten blisters. A friend of mine has an aunt that was into that. She went to a camp and meditated and got her mind so set that she actually walked across a long bed of hot coals and did the mind-over-matter thing and did not get any burns or blisters. She was fine.
I only saw this woman one time at a family gathering in Ocala. What I remember of her is that she had a completely different vibe from everybody else in the room. It's like that whole vibration tone thing that the New Agers talk about.
I always feel like my vibe is different from everybody around me, but in a bad way. Hers was different, but in a weird way. The only thing that I can compare it to is when we went to Spain to visit with Paula's family, our exchange student's family.
We went to Northern Spain to visit her grandmother and grandfather in Sardina. And I remember when we went to their apartment, even though we didn't speak Spanish, we could understand her grandmother perfectly as she went on and on about telling the boys they needed to eat more food and that they were too skinny and she was handing them pudding and cookies and making them eat while they were showing us the apartment and showing us some of the things that they had and were proud of.
And I remember that they had this old cat. Paula told us it was mean and not to mess with it because it would scratch you. And this old cat was sitting there and it was staring at us as if it was just pissed off and ready to do something just totally terrible.
And I remember getting close to it and Paula said, don't touch it, don't get closer and it turned its head just a little toward me and all I could feel was this vibe off of this cat like it was in another world and I was not going to disturb it.
That's what this woman felt like. She was in another world and nobody around her was going to disturb her. It was weird. It was also something that I admire because it was cool.
And so as I meditate and stretch and do my lessons and all that. I'm not trying to be weird and get to where I'm totally vibing differently from the world around me
But I am trying to do that because I am different. I'm God's child and I shouldn't fit into everything around me. People Will be uncomfortable around me when I look at them and see through the Holy Spirit things that a regular human would not normally see.
So it's weird just thinking about that and thinking about the vibe and then having my memory jogged by Proverbs chapter 6 today You can read Proverbs 6 at
https://bible.com/bible/97/pro.6.24-35.MSG
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