I was talking to John in the comments on Doctor Dude and He said, and I quote, “Everything you do has a huge butterfly effect.” I had something entirely different written for today’s creation but that made me think about this moment in southeast Idaho as it relates to the way things are becoming in the world right now.
I haven’t been to any other sites to see what they are saying this week with the exception, I did visit Zero hedge earlier today and I think I went on X twice… but it’s mostly the same repetitive, regurgitated stuff and what I got going on in The One Kingdom is way cooler than any of that stuff. It is not that those sites don’t have their usefulness. I like both of them, but on X especially, its like one person discovers something and 500 people repeat it to get likes and followers. Then my entire feed is the same shit said 100 different ways by 500 different people for likes and followers. Honestly, I don’t have much time for that nonsense. I am busy reading a living story that THE DUDE is Speaking and Creating, in my life, real life. The story THE DUDE is speaking is creating in my life, my future and the future of the world. It is my hope you discover God, Whom I call THE DUDE and listen to the living story HE is speaking in your life.
“Everything you do has a huge butterfly effect.” If you read the comments over on Doctor Dude, you would see a fine example of that with a verifiable result that is beyond human compression at the time of that moment, in faith’s first step.
On 29 July 2023 I was sitting out in front of the place I was staying while in Soda Springs Idaho. It was a beautiful sunny day out. I didn’t have to be anywhere, nothing was pressing. I had the day off from work. I was sitting in a lawn chair under a big tree in the front yard, wearing some camo shorts and a black tank top. There were neighborhood kids outside riding bikes on the street and people were washing their cars, mowing and doing stuff in their yards.
I was extremely at peace. A perfect serenity washed over my whole being. I closed my eyes, smelled the summer air, listened to the children laughing and playing, the birds singing and all the sounds of summer. As I sat there, I felt something touch my knee. I looked down and a really big Monarch Butterfly landed on my knee. I looked at it and it was facing me. I said you are early; I thought you guys started migrating in September or something like that. It fluttered its wings and just sat there. I closed my eyes again and felt another wave of serenity wash over me. I was fully relaxed, present in the moment, here and now. That serenity was like spiritual morphine that washed over me. I was so calm and relaxed and peaceful. Nothing hurt, no sense of anything urgent or any wondering thoughts about anything.
When I opened up my eyes again all the sudden, the sky had started to turn black. A big storm came in and came in fast. I saw the flashes of lightning and counted 2 seconds and the Thunder BOOOMED! This storm just came out of nowhere and was right on top of us. It Blackend the sky and it went from day to night in an instant. It starts raining so hard, then Flash and BOOM! The Thunder Boomed so hard it shook the windows on the house next to me! I stayed still, I still had that perfect serenity washing over me, I looked down and the Monarch Butterfly sat still on my knee. I looked and saw all the kids leave their bikes right in the road and everyone outside was yelling and running in their houses. I closed my eyes felt that perfect peace wash over me again, being present, right here and right now.
As I opened them again, the rain was really coming down hard and fast. The Lightning Flashed and BOOM! The Thunder shook the whole house next to me. I didn’t move and neither did the Monarch Butterfly that sat on my knee. I just sat there in perfect peace. Then as fast as the storm came, it went away, the clouds in the sky parted and the sun came out. Everyone came back outside. The birds started singing again and the music of summer started back up again.
I looked down and the Monarch Butterfly was looking at me, still resting on my knee. The neighbor lady comes over and says, I can’t believe you didn’t run! You didn’t even move! The Thunder was shaking the whole house so bad I thought it was going to fall down. I looked out there and saw you sitting under the tree! You looked like an Angel sitting out there with a Butterfly on your knee. She said look at you! You didn’t even get a single drop of rain on you! I got soaked running for the house! Everyone did! You didn’t even get a single drop of rain on you! I said yeah, I was just sitting here with this butterfly having a moment. I sat up and the Monarch Butterfly fluttered its wings flew off my knee and up by my face about 8 inches in front of me as if to look me in the eyes. I smiled and then it fluttered away. I got up and looked and she was right, I didn’t have a single of drop of rain on me. Not a single drop of rain touched me.
When I woke up the next morning, I threw on some shorts and a tank top, went and grabbed a cup of coffee and headed out to the same spot under that big tree. It was a beautiful sunny and warm morning again. When I went to sit down, I dropped my lighter and it fell under the lawn chair. When I went to go pick it up, I saw this. These Green heart shaped leaves had grown out of the ground that weren’t there the day before.
Pretty cool! They grew out of the ground only under my lawn chair, where I sat in perfect serenity in the middle of a raging storm where the Thunder shook the whole house next to me. I looked around the whole yard and the only place they grew up out of the ground was right under my lawn chair. I heard once that Budha found nirvana sitting under a tree. I have honestly never experienced that degree of serenity ever before that day in my life. I don’t know if it was nirvana or not. It was truly a wonderful experience. I wonder if Budha had a Monarch Butterfly when he found Nirvana sitting under a tree and did, he had green heart shaped leaves grow out of the ground the next day where he was sitting? I don’t know, but I have wondered that a few times.
I am a Christian. A follower of The Christ, whom I call THE DUDE. A citizen of The One Kingdom. That being said, I have had similar experiences in life as others who were prominent figures throughout history many times.
Happy Happy Friday! I hope you all have an amazing weekend! I know I will!
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11 responses to “Serenity in the storm”
Digressing a bit on the topic of trees and blossoming from a couple of the recent posts.
A monk asked a tree “Oh tree tell me about God”, and the tree blossomed.
Digressing? Lol
Maybe ya mist the point of todays creation which was remaining serene in the storms of life and not be frantically running for saftey, if you do this, not a single drop will touch you. And if you do this, you discover new growth.
That is the lesson i learned.
The other creation was more about speaking life into what was thought dead.
Sorry, I meant I was digressing from your point in both stories. 😀 When I saw the last photo and thought of the cherry trees my mind drifted on my way to start work, lol.
ALL GOOD.
Ha ha ha. Im not running The Show brother. Ha ha ha. This is all THE DUDE doings through my experiance.
I cant emphasize that enough.
🙂
I should have written “I’m Digressing a bit on the topic, by drifting to the trees and blossoming from a couple of the recent posts.”
I love how you think, i mentioned 4 of them in the comment below already. Hahaa
John, no matter how much the world rages around you? Those who remain in The One Kingdom, are safe.
Have a wonderful day!
I agree Andy. Have you heard of the 8 priests that were in a church at the center of Hiroshima and survived the blast
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/the-jesuit-priests-who-survived-hiroshima
John, these are all true to life, supernatural experiances with God.
They are not limited to me alone, they are availabe to everyone who comes to Christ. No matter the means or denomination.
Maybe Priests Hugo Lassalle, Hubert Schiffer, Wilhelm Kleinsorge, and Hubert Cieslik will inspire you more than my small tesimony of The Glory of God that protects.
When the Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima it instantly vaporised 80,000 people. The fallout radiation killed many many more people
And yet these 4 priests who were at ground zero, deep on prayer and walked away realtively unscathed. The radiation fallout never affected them at all.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/32445/the-miracle-of-hiroshima-%E2%80%93-jesuits-survived-the-atomic-bomb-thanks-to-the-rosary
And while the rest of the world may tell you to stock up on Tp, beans and bullets?
It was those who remained in prayer unbothered by the world sceaming calamity, who lived.
Much Love Brother.
FOCUS ON THE GOOD
Lol, I just read your comment after I wrote mine
Closer to your location, I think there was aroimd 40 religious people saved at the Mount Saint Helens Retreat center in 1980 when the volcano erupted and they weren’t hurt.