Stranger Things Have Happened

Tom and Woody left with Mary and Herod to bring the other men into the main meeting room. I stayed with John to try to describe a burning sense of urgency I was feeling.

"John, I can't explain what I'm feeling inside," I started.

"It is like an urgency to do something, or that something else is about to happen, right?" He guessed.

"How did you know?" I asked.

"I have felt it many times, my friend. I remember once, on an island we visited with Jesus, there was this boy who was deeply troubled by demonic spirits, who brought injury to him. I felt the same urgency then, but did not know what to do. I guess I was afraid that whatever I tried would fail, and the poor boy would suffer still," he explained.

"So you did nothing?" I asked.

"You are correct. However, Jesus did what we feared we could not; he spoke to the boy, and he was suddenly in his right mind, no longer troubled by the tormenting spirits," He finished.

"So that is why it was so easy for you to help this man who was dying?" I asked.

"That was just one of the things that built my faith," John suggested.

As John finished his statement, Mary came running up to us, urging us to follow her to Herod's room. We complied, and came to the room where the men had been lying on the floor, but there were no bodies; just Herod and Tom scratching their heads.