That would be yesterday.
Hello.
Yup, I’m still here.
My clothes are still on my body and not sitting in a pile on the sidewalk where I stood at six yesterday evening… though there’s still a pile of dirty dishes sitting in my kitchen sink.
Who does dishes when the world is about to end?
No mystic ascension into the clouds dressed in a white robe.
In fact, the last time I sported a robe was when I was in the hospital giving birth to my daughter.
Now that was heaven.
Giving birth to a healthy baby, not the robe wearing… or the 21 hours of labor.
So, I guess it’s pretty obvious that the Rapture promoters didn’t get the result they were after.
Or did they?
Goodness knows they got people talking, and boy did they ever drive millions to www.familyradio.com and to the unbranded website wecanknow.com. I’m sure the donations came pouring in, as much as the crazy poured out.
They got kids asking parents about whether their clothes will go with them when they die and why only spiritual bodies are given white robes to wear, as they magically float into the sky, and who’s Blondie, anyway?
Ironically, as millions poke fun or feel sorry for the people, who truly believed that May 21st was Judgment Day, there are some individuals whose lives really did come to an end last night minus the white robes and piles of clothes.
And not 24 hours later, here I sit in clean clothes in a warm home watching CNN’s coverage of the large tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, including a hospital filled with seriously ill patients. The Springfield News-Leader is reporting that at least 24 people are confirmed dead, though the number is expected to rise.
Let’s hope that some don’t consider this natural disaster to be an apocalyptic prophecy.