I Was Walking Down A Bumpy Road
by
Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” (Psalm 23:4, King James Version)
Greetings In The Holy Name Of Jesus Yahshuah,
My sisters and brothers, as the vehicles rolled by, some in unison of twos and threes and others singularly in line one behind the other, lambasted the road, I found myself walking down a bumpy road, figuratively speaking yet the road of my life—the course I was running that day literally, was a bumpy road. I want you to know those vehicles going nowhere fast, sped by me driving their machines at least 100 miles per hour. The dust of the day’s workload was upon me, threatening me with dismay for the day had miles yet to go. I could feel the weight of the day’s work all over my body. You will begin to identify my work load in the days that will unfold soon, but in the pain of the lambasted bumpy road.
This is of course, yet another misfortunate accident of the branch beating me vertically-inclined down the length of my face landing mostly under my eye on the right-side of my face. Let me clearly say, there was a whole lot of wrangling, going on, What happened? The day was Wednesday, in the afternoon. I laid the last of the pets’ remains in the grave and secured their gravesite with stones, big and small, so that the pets left behind could not dig them out of the grave. In a moment’s notice, the transit bus service pulled up, in front of my driveway, then quickly left to go across the road then quickly returned this time pulling into my driveway blowing the horn, just as if I hired them to come take me to run errands. I had not called them!
This farce was a lie in motion—-front field in motion. Quickly, I entered the farmhouse through the front door because I had not scheduled this ride lift. The dust of the pets grave was still up in the air for I just laid the last stones to cover their grave only seconds before transit bus service arrived. As transit service sat in my driveway blowing the horn I could feel the folks they picked up across the road casting fixes, hoaxes, ill-wishes, roots, even spells, and only God knows what else, is in those folks hearts and minds to orchestrate a false pick-up; just as if I expected them then quite naturally I would be dressed ready to board the transit bus! Outrageous behavior, I say, obviously, trying to get me to leave my house with them! Oh, so a den of thieves who only yesterday tried to take my food delivery by convincing the delivery service that they receive all my packages at their location!
What a mess? And, transit believed them with the false scheduling of bus service. I thank God for divine intervention that kept me steps ahead of this dastardly planned deed to take everything I have! Somehow, with customer service from my food company demanding delivery of all boxes by the scheduled time, I received everything but two 50 pounds bags of dog feed for my pets! How dare them, I thought to myself and out-loud because for the last few weeks they were coming to my estate stealing the puppies now they were taking the feed I purchased to feed the pets I had left, to feed the puppies they stole! Well, customer service refunded me for two 50 pounds bags of feed because I only received one-50 pound bag of feed!
Now, since taking my Chinese plum harvest, the newly-born puppies, putting a snake in the ditch, trying to steal all of my food delivery, they wanted me to leave my home to go on a false trip with them! No! I remained at the farmhouse and eventually the transit bus service left. I did not plan to go anywhere on transit with them! I began to clean the dust of the grave off of me. I thought to myself, in the quiet of my mind, Into each night a little light must fall. That’s when I decided to prune back the Chinese plums and the Desert Almond Peach Nectarines fruit trees near the farmhouse just in case out of hate those folks might sling snakes in my garden. So, I did just that—-go back outside to prune the fruit trees close to the farmhouse with branches draping by the roof of the farmhouse.
The moments of my day blurred in comparison to my clear vision just a while back, for in the shadow of the fire pile I created from the branches I cut, somehow I got lambasted by a branch! As I laid in bed, finally making it back inside the farmhouse the moments of the day played back in my eyes. Now, in reflection, day one and day two, were extremely unbearable abrasive pain in my right eye. God was with me flushing out my eye, for I did not have any medication. God kept my eye flushed in my own water source from my own body because I was waiting for water delivery that was expected on Monday. I was still in Wednesday and Thursday!
On day three, Friday, God’s wondrously working miracle pain-busting power, was evident—-evidently divine brought a sweet relief of pain! Incredible, GOD effect kept me praying in thanksgiving, LORD, I thank you! On day four, the cumbersome pain came back, incrementally so! God portioned the pain out, so I would not pass out. I was still benefiting from the watery eye flushing out the debris from my eye and binding my head across the swelling helped a lot although it was still painful to turn my head to the right then back to the center of my gravity. I was so happy when God wiped out the pain completely as a testament of His healing power, on day five. God ‘s grace prevailed to heal all the pain—-allergy, eye, and head pain!
I awake on day six, the day I expected delivery of water from a new company brand and medication from the food pantry I order from to receive both medication and water delivery, as expected! Thank you, LORD GOD! Since relying solely on God’s healing power for six days, it did not make sense to take medication yet I did. I soon found out that the medication could not take care of the pain level, I had to pray to GOD not to leave me—-to stay with me, with the medicine. This I did since I could not even get out of bed to get the medicine and the pain came back.
Many hours had to pass to get relief back! I started praying for GOD’S help to stop the pain. He did! I never doubted he would not do as he promised to save! GOD was my only source for six days, and I know there is pain that GOD must deal with!
I had to keep up the every four hours scheduling with the medicine. GOD did not let me slip through the cracks back into severe pain again! LORD GOD, I thank you because I know all medicines, everything on the Earth, is the power of GOD! Have you ever totally had to rely on GOD, for relief?! The problem herein, lies, Why do we not think of God’s healing power, as the sole source of healing—-the only source?
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” [Genesis 1:1, KJV]. “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life: For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us:) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.” [I John1:1-3, KJV]. “And, Thou Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.” [Hebrews 1:10, KJV]. “For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.” [Psalms 8:5, KJV].
“ Thus saith the the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things: that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself.” [Isaiah 44:24, KJV, Exhortation to praise]. “God that made the whole world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;”[The Acts 17:24, KJV, Paul at Berra and Athens]. “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” [Revelation 4:11, KJV]. The Word of God and the Gospel readings. Amen.
In my prayers, my pleadings to God were heartfelt:
I thank you, LORD GOD YAHWEH. Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus Yahshuah. Thank you Lord, thy grace set me free!
I know there was a spiritual being; not a celestial being but a man that can go in the spirit that was initially in the fruit trees that I cut back, then the spirit ran to the fire pile where I was laying the cut branches and swung the branch at me. I have seen men who can go in spirit enter the space of flesh to possess and act out evil deeds. I saw the face of man in the pecan tree across the road only a day before one such man was inside my fruit tree, yellow Chinese plum, next to my farmhouse—east side! Here I am a living testament of what GOD can do. He did it for me. He will do it for you.
Folks called me Jesus because it was my family that tried to do what they did: a den of thieves—-takers of life, liars, perverts, destroyers, sinners of enormous proportions, who concocted schemes in conspiracy with others to wipe out a family, to take all our lives and everything we had but such as it was a child of God, a daughter of God, for now, a sister of Christ, who stood the test of time that keeps rewriting itself, resisting the truth that the battle is the Lord’s. God did not let the false rebuke stand, the lie did not stand for truth, the thief could not take, the killer could not take life, and the destroyer could not destroy the beauty of life. Jesus came to give life—-more abundantly. The harvest is big!
God already won the battles and the war yet we compellingly find ourselves fighting a battle just because of the hate that folks will not let go of! I thank God for our family especially those steadfast members who resisted and rebuked Satan in spite of the Satanic attacks that threatened to take life and liberty! To God be the glory, forever! Amen. God bless
