Daily Journal December 16, 1997, William Thomas Thompson. I will include prayer and scripture in each day as a reading. It is Tuesday A.M. already and finally I am patronizing the local service station on hwy 29 at the foot of the hill. I have been there 3 times already, twice this morning to get a inch transmission line connector fixed but a stubborn car stays on the rack maybe just to try my patience. The man is so nice to me, yet he seems to think that I am disgusted as I normally would be. We should patronize our neighbor even if he were to cheat us, because we must live as a community of people before God in love, peace and long suffering. We are not excused from our responsible to extend unconditionally our love, care, attention to others and not just Christian brothers and sisters. Today an auto mechanic and his lift is the most important thing in my life, I rejoice in this. Luke 1-29, "...And who is my neighbor?" Yesterday I had another fall back still no broken bones. I have never broken a bone in my life, not even when I fell off the horse as a child and again off the lumber pile face first. In 1988 I gradually became dependent on crutches and a wheelchair to move about although after a year I improved greatly but was still considered 100 percent paralyzed below the knees and 55 percent in the fingers. I have never thought of myself as being crippled. It was during a stay in Hawaii in July 1989 that I suddenly began to paint Christian art of Bible prophecy. I will not talk about yesterday other than this one second in my life of the vision I saw, for it will use up too much of today and spoil my vision of tomorrow. Last night I recorded a report on CBS News of faith in divine healing by the medical universities of Harvard and Georgetown, that prayer and faith is the leading cause of cure. I believe that after a fall a day average for over 3,000 days that I will not fall again. I am in perfect health and live a full life. I am happy to have a new word processor, a Cannon Star Writer that cost $220.00. I must learn how to use it. It is different from my Smith Corona, typing is slow due to my fingers hitting wrong keys. Dear Lord, may we treat our neighbors as we treat ourselves. I find people most interested in simple things. I am sure my art needs the writings to explain why I paint and what the paintings mean. Billy Graham preached the simple gospel and it appealed to the world. Could I ever have anything more to say that he has not said already? Yes. May I say it O Lord in art form, who am I to teach or preach the Gospel or to paint Bible art when I have been a layman at best, what message does the steeple church want or need to hear today or see that it has not already heard? I see myself as an alien to the world and the church, the world earthly church. No one sees or hears what I say. No one reads what I write or see what I paint. I view the world turned around from right or reason and going in the wrong direction. Only a billboard sign or two or a thousand will get their attention. I want to show people where they really are. I see a Godless nation and world void of truth and conceded to Satan without hope. I see the last battle coming soon, the battle of Armageddon that great battle of God almighty, when all the enemies of God will be destroyed and the earth will be at peace for good and forever. I see the total fulfillment of Bible prophecy by the end of this millennium. The end is near.