Hampton Inn Rochester, MN. Monday June 4, 2012

As I was getting my breakfast I begin to talk with a man from Buffalo, NY.  He was with his friend that was trying to get a kidney transplant.   He then introduces me to his friend.  I was once told, if you sat around a table with ten sick hurting people and you all put your problems on the table and could trade your problems with any of them you wouldn’t want to trade. This man had a walker and was my age.  His liver was not working good so this was his only hope. I told him of my brother Rick and how his spirit was so connected with God. That Rick was the Salida, CO Santa.  He lived as a holy spririt man. Rick taught me to connect to people in the spirit. Before I went back to the room he let me pray with him. I prayed that we would have good news. As I walked into the room Patti was on the bed watching an old home movie. When I focused in on the screen I saw it was Rick.  He had baby Zechariah on his lap & he looked up at me. The Holy Spirit transcends time and space but that is a moment in time I will never forget. It was in October 22,1989 that I shot this video and now it was June 4, 2012 and Rick was alive speaking to me from a computer. He looks into the camera and said, ”Hi Mike, how you doing”. I answered the question. I am doing great brother Rick and started to cry. Patti looks at me and asks if I was ok? I said, "yes" and tell her about the man in the lobby. I back up the video and take the computer to the lobby. The man I had talked with was still waiting for the shuttle. I showed him what I just saw and introduce him to Santa Rick. He tells me, ”I think your brother is trying to tell us something. “ I think the Holy Spirit is telling us something and he moved through time and space to do it. As I get on the shuttle I see a  rather large man in a Hawaiian shirt a Rick Papp trademark as I depart I tell him how much I like his shirt. He smiles thanks me then nods and chuckles. It was perfect.

 I have a thing about raptors. I also have a guardian owls. I am in the examining room waiting for the doctor and picked up a Natural Wildlife magazine and read about pygmy Owls. 

It may not seem like a lot but I felt a comfort. The news was not what I had hoped to hear. I need to have another surgery to get a tissue sample to make absolutely certain I have no cancer. My new Dr. Olsen knows my old KU Dr. Girod. He is the same height as Dr. Girod only a bit older about 5'3".
I take comfort in the fact that size and intelligence might be related. I think the good news today was God has the answer. It will require faith in Him and that He will not give me anything I can’t handle.