Just A Little Sign Lord?

Micky, I actually did read the entire Hub. Why? You took the time and effort to produce it. For the longest time, the Israelites continued to look for some sort of sign. When none was forthcoming, they began to produce and worship their own idols. They all, as you know, resulted in being false. Sometimes, when we desperately seek signs, we grossly misinterpret incidents which are normal. The mouse. The roach. The different incidents which might seem innocuous to others become a talisman to others. To some, they become the brass ring we desperately try to snatch up.

You've seen your victories. You've seen your failures. It is what it is. Do you handle your failures differently now? How are you in the press? Is the Micky Dee of today different than the one punching it out in the Nam? Of course he is. The real question is what would you do with the sign if you actually saw it? Without the spiritual vision of the Holy Ghost, satan can and will play the big deceiver and provide a sign to the one so desperately seeking one and without the spiritual vision, how would you really know where it came from until it was too late?

Mick, the problem is, many don't know. One man may look for a sign that he will one day be financially prosperous. Satan knows he wants that. He wants it and needs it badly. He also knows you're not necessarily watching God 24/7 so if he slips you a sign to go left instead of right and wraps it up in a holy wrapping, are you really gonna stop to discern the spirit if the promise is what you been waiting on?

Micky, I laughed all the way. Your visitors were hysterical, only you would think this up. You, without a doubt, are funny. I hope you are not in that much pain. I hope it is just a joke.

Love and Peace

PS I did read the whole thing, haha

I read it all and am so sorry I missed your birthday... was thinking of you on your birthday, though... just got the date wrong. Anyway, I haven't had time to read your stuff lately and I apologize. It is wonderful as usual - I love your writing and your thoughts - I love YOU. Always will. Take care... hope to talk to you soon.

I love it! I think that we are all looking for signs from God and sometimes all that we have to do is look and there they are!

Beautiful, my brother. God will know your kindness to write this hub. I always impress me with your pictures. That's why I always miss you all the time wait your hub. Keep on up date. Thank you very much. My pray, my love always for you. ~ Prasetio

First, a belated happy birthday and I'm sorry I missed it! "Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs, Blockin' up the scenery, breakin' my mind...So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own f***** sign. I said, "Thank you Lord for thinking 'bout me, I'm alive and doing fine"

I read every word :) I'm sorry the pain is getting in the way of the group rides now and maybe wheeling around Belize is not a bad idea. Incredible hub, sir.

You express yourself so completely, flaws and all!

I left you a birthday present! go find it! Happy Birthday Michael! ~aloha nui loa~

Happy Birthday, awesome signs, God bless ya brother :)

Micky, your hub brought back to me another birthday I had nearly 20 years ago, my fortieth, which I thought should be 'important' but was 'celebrated' alone, no friend to take me out (of myself)no money, no phone, no dope, no booze, not even any smokes... no cards, no congrats.. anyhow I went into the olive grove outside my house, looked up and shouted "IF YOU EXIST, YOU'D BETTER MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN TO ME"

It took 18 months before I could recognise that He was trying to communicate, and that I was learning to hear from Him.

Christ is not in the microwave religion business, He is more of a 'slow cookpot' - unless the situation is dire, when He may pull out the stops a bit.

Now for your birthday present....

DHEA

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Nice to see that it may make you hairier!

Also found this page, don't know anything about the company or their claim that using sub lingually would enhance the product, but sub lingual is the best way to get anything into your body (including alcohol!)

Take a look...

http://www.breakthroughhealthproducts.com/DHEA.htm...

Happy Birthday Micky,

I hope you get your comms working quickly, and thanks for the great hub, and yes I DID read all of it!

John

Yo,Mic, got no words except I know the end of the road feeling, it talks to me and tells me do something different, cuz your out of this young mans game, so I slowly have to come to terms with the "I used to" thing

Much Peace and Love, Dusty

After reading this in its entirity I have only a few things to say. First, it's a really good Hub as you poured yourself upon the page here. Second, I think we all look for signs from God at times. Third, I wonder if we have the wisdom to recognize the signs he sends. You saw a mouse, roach and mesquito (sp) and took them as signs and maybe they were. You also saw kind people, yourself overcome pain and reach a goal you had set for yourself. You saw another anniversary of your birth come and go surrounded by people who care for you. You saw beautiful landscapes that you were able to manuver through at will with sunshine upon you and breezes wraping you. I could never say what are your signs and what are not... I can wonder though at how we all take for granted so many, many things that are gifts every day. I know I do.

Thank you Micky for making me stop for a moment and examine the "signs" in my own life. Perhaps for some your Hubs are a sign as you not only give us the gift of tiny glimpses of you but further the gift of inspiring us to pause and examine ourselves.

Micky Dee

Very clever and entertaining, I really liked the selection of signs.

Maybe there are no signs, but expecting to see one, we make anything or everything a sign.

If one if by land, and two if by sea, what is the signal if no one is really coming?

~:}

hey MD, it's them dang it sigh posts that stand out more then the signs at times! ha ha

hey hey you there, good morning! :D

What a read .. I read all the way too Micky .. cuz you are worth the whole read. Only wish I had more time to read my favorite hub buddies. :0) I could relate to the yearning for a sign .. sometimes it feels like I'm in a fog and I want a sign too .. any sign. I like what you said earlier .. hard to see the signs for the signs. Ha! What a good word picture. Keep seeking dear Micky Dee .. He will never give up on thee. You are LOVED!

Oh, and God Bless your buddy David for taking you out to celebrate your birthday!

Mekenzie

Dear Always Exploring, Michael is not making up about the pain. There are many physical correlates in addition to the psychic ones. I agree with one thing Unchained Grace said, "It is what it is". Not something I would expect from a seeker of the supernatural but something easily understood by a secular humanist such as myself.

Happy Birthday as well - and great signs!

Happy belated B-Day Micky. I follow me. Loved all those signs you put up. Funny stuff.

Hi Mick, Oh, I read through it, YAY, I hope you feel better and with all those pains, you are still asking what you can do for the LORD! My goodness you have been assaulting that Mount Mitchell for the past thirty years, huh....Thats a great achievement...Do you still take hydrocodone today?

I hope it is not too late, Happy Birthday! (I hope you will be happier and best for you!)

I am just happy to be back reading your hubs again, Yes I missed it, Take care there, Maita

wow awesome hub

I can't help but laugh, those pictures are so funny! Happy Birthday Micky Dee! Long life and lucky all the way!

Yes, Micky that was a very long hub but l have to read it all ,I'm always afraid I'll miss something if I skip through your work. Sorry you have so much pain. Maybe you could ask God about treatment, He obviously answers you one way or another;He IS there and listening!!!!!!One day the world will be right.Meanwhile we have hubfriends to keep us laughing' This was brilliant' Thank you and love the shirt x

best hub of all time!!!!!!! but of course I said that about your last hub - but this hub is so epic in every way - I spend 40 days and 40 nights here - and abstained from sex, alcohol and late night TV - just to spend time here - you operate in an entirely different universe from everyone else because you are such a supremely wonderful human being - and we are just happy to be part of it!

Thanks for this one - and of course all that you do - not just for me but the HUMAN RACE!

Hey Micky!!!!!! HOW COME Epigramman gets a reply and l got nothing? Zilch, Nada,,,..????????

I read it and all of it lol it wasnt so unmercifully carried on, in fact I can get what you are saying about God and his signs. But really having faith is not needing any signs to believe that he is there and helping us out. We may not always see it or know it but he is there. and even little things like a mouse or a roach could be him, whether his sense of humor or his way of telling us something. Just pay attention and appreciate the little things in life. and know God has a hand and an eye over us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlmBCrBJokA

xo

Micky I can tell you from expericne, and I havent even been alive 30 years yet, much less long enought to have a friend for that long, but Hydrocodone wont help any pain. The best cream they make is bengay and no pill kills the pain. A heating pad works wonders for most pain. IF the heating pad doesnt get the job done I move to the tense unit, that usualy knocks out the worst of any pain, and I try to reserve it just for that. The hydro just makes the pain worse, your body aches more just so you will take it. then it aches more so you will take more. It is proven fact that your brain invents pain to get a fix of opiates, just check the studies. It works for short term great, but really it is not for long term unless you are using ever increasingly more powerful opiates, and you dont want to go down that road trust me. I havent taken opates in almost 2 years now, the only time I take anything for pain is when it is way beyond controllable. anyother time its heating pads and tense units or bengay I love yougurt too but for someone who knows cronic pain the best regimine si with no pills at all. Unless you feel you will die without it.

As for God, the best thing to do is understnad that we are on his time. and we will only see the signs when our hearts are open our eyes have nothing to do with it. Its like that movies Bruice Almighty before he wrecks on the bridge that is the best annalogy I have ever seen for Gods signs. Again in my short 27 years I have cursed God more than once and begged him to stay out of my life. But I always come crawling back. But we have to remember that every one of Gods prophest did the same thing at some point or another even Jesus, why do you think they took out the books of his teenage years? Becase he was human too, and he didnt always have an easy life. And he too wondered if God had forsaken him. Sometimes it seems that way, and maybe tomorrow isnt brighter, maybe the next is worse, but one day our eyes will open, and those signes we missed will be right infront of our faces, God willing anyways. I for one see signs of God everywhere, no they dont always tell me what to do or what to think or where to go, but they remind me God is there and he is watching no matter how bad it may seem. Thanks for your interesting post. Yes I read the whole thing.

Maybe others found it is funny but I am not. I found it sad. Behind your humour there is great pain and sarcasm not really work for my silly mind :( (poor me! I know. :)).

Just take it easy, Micky. Sometimes God knock in the head in the time when we less expect it and suddenly you will see the path, if it is God's will for you to see it. You just need to keep humble in your heart and let your mind wide open.

May God bless you.

Happy belated birthday, King Micky.

Well Mickey, the fact that you can push through the pain says a lot about your character. A lot of us with chronic pain let it rule our lives and take away that which we love most.I was like that for a while, I guess 3 or 4 years. From the age 22 to 25, some of the best years of my youth were wasted in a daze of powerful narcotics. Fyntinl, and oxycotin and even just opium when I could find it. It makes a great tea that taste terrible and smokes fine, best of all it kills the pain and lets us do the things we want to do or so we think.

Anyways I had 6 ruptured discs, a couple pinched nerves, central and fomonal spinal stonisis, and DJD. The key word there is HAD. I have an MRI from a year ago that looked very bleak and bad, I have an MRI from a couple months ago that make it look like I've never even had a back ache. So good in fact that my new doctor at the VA thought I was lying to her about it, until I showed her the MRI'S from the VA and 4 neurosurgeons in SC.

Now you may ask me, what happened? How did your back just heal like that? Or, was it ever really injured in the first place?

I assure you it was indeed in very bad shape. At age 22 some doctors couldnt wait to cut my neck open and start hacking away. Something inside of me told me, not to do it. So I didnt, I just kept getting high on opates for the pain taking more and more for less and less results. Yes I kept getting high, but it worked on the pain less and less. So I decided to quit taking the opates, not an easy choice or thing to do.

Anyways, back to my point. The pain was very real and my neck was extreemly damaged, it actaully caused me to have some pretty terrible head aches at the base of my head in the back.

Anyways, I stopped using the opiates and low and behold the pain startted to ebb and then it was mostly gone. I hadn't had a pain in a while. But knowing I had DJD I figured I better have another MRI to make sure my pain recepters in my neck wernt gone or so damaged they wouldnt work.

And that is when I got the good news. The great news. Well what happened? The only two major changes in my life at that time was, I stopped opiates and I rededicated my life to God. Call me crazy but there was no medical explination for what happened and I didnt try any alternative treatments. All I did was stop pain meds and find God again.

I honestly believe it was God that healed me. When we step away from God our bodies pay a price along with our sprits, and when we come back to God he heals that payment. Now I wont presume to know Gods will he does his thing in his time. And from your comments I know you believe in Gods power, but maybe your direction is wrong and pain is a way to tell us we are doing something we shouldnt. Anyways I wont presume anything about you either I just wanted to share my story about pain, and I admire your determination. And good luck with it all. Forgive my long windedness

Nice article, made me smile and shake my head at the same time. I like your selection of images too. Good hub!

Great stuff oh I often wished I could express my inner most self as you do. I was most moved when you stated now is not the time to be strong it's the time to be weak, or rather he wants me to be weak. That's a HUGE statement... We go around trying to do everything and possibly control stuff when we should just let go and let life follow the easy breeze of PEACE :) That corn chowder looked good!

Thanks for sharing yourself. Peace :)

How much bigger was that mouse than a mustard seed Micky?

Most of us here have problems Micky, you know that, it seems God has brought us altogether. You pray for someone else when you have problems. There is someone worse, pray for those.

Thank you Micky, for a funny and awesome hub, you're right about one thing it was very,very long. I truly hope your pain go away and Happy Belated Birthday, may God continue to bless you and yours. Much love. creativeone59

If all signs were like those, I would definitely read em LOL Those are funny Mik. When was your birthday? Belated happy birthday my good friend :) Pretty pics you had there. Chowder sounds yum yum.

Hummm . . Belize . . oh wait your hub, that's why I'm here. God was giving you the signs all along my friend; good food, good friends, good times and waking up each morning in your right mind (sort of). Happy belated "B" day my friend.