Author: Wick

I’ve been noticing something lately. Stories all over the internet, in books, and in sermons that illustrate aspects of humanity being taken on by other animals.

A lion that reminds us how love conquers all.

A goat that reminds us not to be judgemental.

A dog that reminds us of how simple it can be to love someone.

Etc. People get emotional, inspired, and teary eyed, and say….wow, what a good point.

I should probably be honest and say….I don’t think lions, goats, or dogs do any of those things.

I love my wife. Not like a lion loves it’s owners after being gone for a year. Not like a dog loves it’s owner, even when the owner doesn’t do much for the dog. And not like the rooster loves the Sun.

But rather…like a man loves his wife. Inspiring story to go with it? Well, I did take out the trash this morning. It was some nasty stuff, smelled gross, and was really heavy. In my mind I thought, “Sarah would be disgusted by this, and it would probably take her several trips. I’ll take it out to the street myself.”

Moved to tears? Inspired to go love someone else in such a way? I thought so. 🙂

I’m not saying that these animal stories are bad to have around. Not even saying the world shouldn’t use them. I’m sure they actually do help move people emotionally, and that can be a very good thing. But just saying, I’ve had enough of them for awhile. 🙂

Let’s be humans that can inspire each other by the way we are human, so that we don’t have to look elsewhere in the animal kingdom for inspiration as much. K?

So last week, on a stormy night, Sarah and I pulled the curtains back to watch some pretty awesome lightning/rain/etc. It was pretty cool. But it ended quickly, and we were sittin’ there watchin’ darkness. It was late, so we kicked on the tube to see what was on at that hour.

Enter “Rev. Peter Popoff“. Oh man…this guy was hilarious. Ever seen “Fletch Lives” with Chevy Chase, where you’ve got the fake Televangelist who hears information from his assistants through an earpiece, and has fake healings and what-not? This Popoff guy is TOTALLY doing that. And his mannerisms, etc…oh man. It had to be fake. But it was totally serious. Thousands of people attending his services, all obviously “in need”, or “looking for something”.

Kinda funny. Mostly sad that this guy would be allowed airtime.

Anyways, he’s talking about this “miracle manna” that he got a recipe for in the Bible, and that if you eat it, and follow his specific instructions, God’s got some incredible blessings for you. At that moment, my wife said “you should totally call and get some for free”.

So of course, with her already on board, no convincing was necessary, I called Popoff. Told him my “need” was thousands of dollars in college debt, let’s see him conquer that. This past saturday, I got my “miracle manna” along with instructions.

Of course, it’s all in fun, and I was hoping it’d make an entertaining blog post. I ate the manna as instructed, although I’m not sending him money as instructed (duh Popoff, remember….I don’t have any?). Today I finally opened up the Bible to look up where he got this recipe for “Miracle Manna”.

I hope he didn’t follow the recipe exactly. – Ezekiel 4:9-15

You see, it’s the bread God gave the Israelites as punishment. They were given the ingredients, and told to bake it on human dung. After some complaints, God relented, allowing them to bake it on cow dung. But still. I ate that junk.

After doing some research on Popoff, I’m really surprised he’s still allowed to do anything public without everyone exposing him as a crock. He was destroyed by an investigation back in the 80’s and it was even broadcast on the Tonight show (& most recently on “Inside Edition”). But I suppose it’s a whole new generation of desperate people out there now.