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   "I've been to the edge" he kept telling me, this youngish chap was a church   
   leader and achieved greatness, but now what I thought, I asked him to tell   
   me about what happened in his lifetime, he told me about the great church he   
   was part of off, telling me stories of mass conversions and great social   
   events, telling me of the joy of leading people in the church to greatness,   
   I quizzed him more and more and he told me his experience of the   
   tribulation, he was telling me "I've been to the edge" I kept asking him   
   about the tribulation, he told me he couldn't face remembering about it, he   
   told me he felt so alone during the tribulation, he wanted the times of   
   greatness to just keep happening but as troubles increased people became   
   more reserved, the initial great joy they had when they got converted and   
   their zeal to meet new people and enjoy fellowship faded, he told me that in   
   the best times it was great people were really enjoying their Christian   
   lifes and everyone was filled with awe and met togther daily and had   
   wonderful times together, yet once the tribulation started people just   
   either stopped going to church or they became dispondant, it was a really   
   difficult time for the church and the leadership since they often felt they   
   had not much to lead and get inspired, it was very daunting, he told me   
   again "I've been to the edge", so I finally asked him "tell me about the   
   egde", he told me about the band he was in and how great it felt to sing   
   spiritual songs infront of crowds of thousands of enthused Christians all   
   cheering away praising the Lord, he told me of the great joy of having felt   
   a bit of paradise on earth, it was one of many high spiritual moments for   
   him, the high of singing away praising the Lord as a group created a   
   tingling natural high that generated great euphoriah or "rapture" as he   
   liked to talk about, that high didn't last long because things slowly faded   
   away, and things got burdensome, but those highs were in his memory, I   
   looked as this chap and prayed he could once again "goto his edge" again, I   
   aksed him if he felt now he had arrived in paradise that such highs would   
   again happen, he looked strange and dispondant, I reminded him Jesus had   
   transformed him and there is time to restore things and have great praise   
   and worship again, I could see the desire was there but the tribualtion had   
   knocked away allot of his zeal, coming down from the mountain tops of highs   
   and crowds having a great time really left this chap a bit empty, he told me   
   such hieghts seemed out of reach, but I reminded him of the time before he   
   became a Christian and that he never dreamed of such highs, he told me he   
   had, "oh ok" I replied "I guess God put it in you to reach for the sky from   
   a young age", indeed he agreed, "such heights make you feel great, so really   
   there seems no option, you must aim for the sky again" he felt his highs had   
   passed and reaching the mountain tops took originiality and not knowing that   
   such highs were possible, I quizzed him "so when you were young you never   
   knew about the highs of the concerts and you went for it, but now that phase   
   is over, but you need to go for it again, there are lots of people here who   
   made it from the tribulation they could use a concert or two to get them   
   back feeling great" , there were no lost people around since the tribulation   
   was over, but it seemed a shame not to use this chaps God given talents, it   
   took many months of talking and reasoning but this chap started over again   
   and got the band back together they started playing again and produce some   
   great music to praise God with, it was a new life a new experience, the   
   hieghts of the previous mountain were for that time but there are more   
   mountains to be climbed, it took a long recovery but the moments back then   
   were real then, this chap found it hard to move on, somehow doing something   
   like the concert for the first time was unique, we talked allot about things   
   in the past, but now in the millenium things were great no more wars no more   
   suffering, I thought long and hard about how to help this chap out, we   
   formed a football team and got encouragement from that, other sports were   
   new experiences for this chap, slowly he relearn't what it was to feel great   
   again, it was amazing how much the tribualtion had effected so many people,   
   but with effort we did lots of loving fun things and we recovered, it was   
   strange looking at the sights of the old world looking at the cities and the   
   country, it felt eary at times that the phase before Jesus' return was so   
   materialistic we looked around many cities that we were redesigning and felt   
   mixed feelings, occasionaly we would put on a video or dvd, the transistion   
   from pretribulation earth to tribulation earth to the earth with Jesus back   
   certainly had challenges but the peace was incredible, the freedom was   
   incredible, going to Israel to worship our Lord was great, we just had to   
   get the band together and make some concerts, we remixed some oldies and   
   added words and had a great time, this chap got his zeal back again, the   
   crowds were bigger the joy was just as real, it took time to get in to the   
   routine again, but after a few concerts things really got going well again   
   ... a few years after the tribulation things really got fun :-) far better   
   than ever before ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)