Do I really look like these people?

Ok, I stole this from Kirk's site because I thought it was really funny. I must say I am flattered by the people it said I look like. You should try it out.

Hallucinations

I was watching a show late last night, early this morning called the 4400. I'd never seen it before and even though I was extremely tired I found myself caught up in the story. A new drug had been discovered that caused it's users to hallucinate. This drug was put in food, cookies mostly and distributed by one person, so those "using" the drug didn't realize they had been affected. The victims would begin seeing and having a conversation with a person from their past who they had unresolved issues with. These hallucinations would follow them around, bringing up the persons hurts from their past. In some cases it was an ex-boyfriend who had cheated, an abusive uncle who had passed away, or even a deceased father. Through the course of the show the characters discovered that the only way to rid themselves of this badgering imagination was to spend time with this person and after years of burrying the pain, dealing with it. At the conclusion the man distrubuting this drug was caught and shared that his intentions were to help people deal with their burried pain.

Throughout the show I found myself thinking, "if this were to happen to me, who would my hallucination be?" Who is the person or persons in my past that I still have burried bitter feelings toward? Are there people in my life that if standing in front of me right now would stir up all kinds of emotions I thought I had dealt with? Are there unresolved issues from my past that are affecting my life presently? Unforgiveness can ruin your life.

Nightmare

Last week I took my teens to a Christian haunted house called Nightmare. It's put on by a church every year and it's like a reality thing. I was shaking the entire time because of the intensity of it all. You're rushed from one room to the next spending about three minutes in each area. One room is a morgue, another is a gang fight, there's a room with parents fighting and the next room a teen suicide. The room that hit me the hardest was when we were in hell. We were standing on this bridge and it was dark all around us, there were people hanging in cages and trying to climb up to us screaming out in total agony. My heart ached at the thought of hell and all its pain and suffering. Satan then appeared and gave a speach about the reason we were down there. One thing he said was, "You're not down here because you were a bad person, but because you wouldn't give your life over to the one who died for your soul and what good did it do you?" The next room was Christ being tortured followed by his death on the cross. The final room was a video of the senior pastor who hosts Nightmare. He shared the purpose of this reality haunted house is to show the issues that teens deal with today and help them realize that etenity is on the line. After 20 minutes of intensity you enter a large room with counselors who greet you to talk and pray with you. One of the teens who came with us accepted Christ! It was a really unique, neat experience. I've never been in a haunted house before and this one was so breath taking scary intense. I don't like being scared, but it was a really good night.