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For a prelude to this post, please see Stories to Read at Christmas Time
In March of 2020…
…I’d been working at an ESL school in Toronto. When the scamdemic hit, I, along with almost everyone else I knew, got laid off while the world “flattened the curve”.
Only two weeks, remember?
So, I’d headed back to Nova Scotia, which was where I was living prior to Toronto. In the early days of Covid, I took what I was hearing fairly seriously, even though some people, like my friend Tony Pantalleresco, said from the beginning that this was a farce.
A few months in, by about May of that year, I was convinced that Tony was right. It was all just too weird how quickly the radio and TV news were ready with their stories, the commercials regarding Covid, and how stores had their stupid plastic barriers up and floor stickers down, telling people to stay six feet apart.
Operation Isolation began with a bang.
By July, I’d decided to go back to British Columbia, and travel wasn’t restricted anymore so I packed my car and began the trip.
Now I’d been listening to Tony’s show for about two to three years by then and began recovering using his anti-nano method. If you’ve ever heard his shows, you will know that at the end of his shows, he says, “Read the Gospels, read what Jesus had to say.”
He’d often make connections and present his ideas on how Bible stories relate to today in terms of technology (i.e. the Tower of Babel… were they trying to capture free energy/ether?). I suppose I heard it enough that it finally sunk in.
Anyway, that summer, shortly before the journey west, I received an electronic version of the King James Bible, from Tony actually. I think we’d been discussing some verses.
That was the first of four Bibles I received that summer.
The Cross-Canada Trip Begins
It’s a great thing that I have family and friends all across Canada because that meant that I had places to sleep most of the way. After Nova Scotia, I stopped at family’s in New Brunswick then in Montreal to visit a good friend for a couple of days. Next was Ottawa, more family.
The Long Slow Road
After Ottawa, the drive through Ontario to Manitoba is long and slow because much of the highway is single-laned and there are lots of big trucks on the road. I also had a cat with me and the poor little gal needed frequent breaks. She’s a trooper, though! She’d hop out of the car with her harness and leash on her and I’d let her get her feet in the grass for a bit. We’d eat, drink, and rest a bit, and she had her small cat litter box on the floor of the car for when she needed it.
After a couple of days on the road in Ontario, Smokey, my cat, had learned my routine before we had to get back into the car – once I began to pack up and go in and out the hotel room door, she knew she’d have to go in the car too. She was sick of it and began to hide under the bed before it was time to go.
So one day I decided we’d spend an extra night in a hotel somewhere just to rest. I believe the place was called Vermillion Bay. In the hotel room in the bedside table, I found a Bible. Placed by THE GIDEONS, it read on the front cover.
In my early 20s, I was a housekeeper in a hotel and I remember that when we cleaned the room, we had to always make sure that there was a Bible in one of the drawers. If there was no Bible, however, we were to simply go to storage and get a new one. Guests were allowed to take the Bible if they wished.
Anyway, back in Vermillion Bay, while Smokey and I rested, I decided to read some of this Bible I’d found. I don’t remember what I read that day – it might have been Revelations – but the next day after I had the car packed and did my final sweep of the hotel room, I looked in the drawer, saw that Bible there, hesitated… Then grabbed it.
Why the heck not, right? That was the second of four Bibles I received that summer.
Here’s another video of going through Ontario, past Lake Superior https://www.bitchute.com/video/MvJglkgARLAy .
Smokey & I Continue Our Journey
Shortly after Vermillion Bay is Manitoba. The prairies were glorious to drive through after the long slow road through Ontario.
Finally, once I reached the Fraser Valley on the BC coast, my final destination, I parked myself in a temporary place and went apartment hunting.
Two More Bibles
One day, I went to view a basement suite in Chilliwack. It was a pretty great apartment and the landlady was really nice, someone I thought I could get along with. However, the place was missing a few key features that I really wanted in a home, so I politely declined.
“Oh, that’s okay, I understand,” she told me. “So what’s your story? How did you come to be here?” She was very curious about me, so I told her.
I told her a bit of my health history and how I was quite sick with Lyme disease but recovered, and that I now write a blog about it. She thought that was fascinating and said something like, “The Lord was watching over you.”
“That could be,” I replied.
“Can I say a prayer for you? Do you pray? Is that okay?” she asked me.
“Sure,” I said.
So she held my hand and said a prayer. Then she ran inside the house and came out with two little books for me – two mini-sized New Testaments. She asked me if I read the Bible. I told her, “A little bit when I was a child… and a few days ago in a hotel room.”
“Can I give these to you? You know, if you only read one thing in the Bible, read the book of John, just do that.”
So I accepted these little Bibles, two different versions. Some time after that I thought, Well, that’s four Bibles I got in only a couple of months. I think this means that I have to read it. And so I did, beginning with the book of John.
After John, I read Luke, Mark, then others. I still have yet to read every book of both Testaments, but I have read Revelations a number of times – whoa, that is some heavy stuff.
“It’s way better than Netflix!” I told my aunt when I told her I’d starting reading the Bible.
Indeed it is.
