I found Jesus and you can too
Greetings, friend.
Forgive me for being bold, but I see what seems to be fear buried deep inside your eyes, and I sense a heavy sadness festering in the depths of your heart.
What ails you, friend?
Why are you unwell, and how can I help you heal?
Let me ask you,
friend,
do you often find your idle mind wondering what fiery fate awaits you after your days of aimlessly wandering the Earth in endless search of hope and happiness are over?
Do depression and despair drive you right up to the edge of life, to a cliff, to a knife, to a land where the answer's at the tip of your tongue in the barrel of a gun down the blade of a razor up the ladder to a rafter where a noose hangs loose and the death question begs?
Do your cloudy eyes tire of crying alone and quiet every neverending night as the wild wind howls outside and the windowframes quake and the whole house groans and shakes, and she who once shared her warmth and her gentle loving grace in the cold bedplace beside you is long lost and gone away for good?
Are you drowning in sorrow in a dark and cruelsome world that doesn't seen to care?
Are you scared of dying?
Are you standing there sighing with failure on your breath ready now more than ever to quit, give up, and admit defeat forever?
Well I'm sorry to hear that, friend.
But I can relate.
I know how you're feeling right now.
You see, I've been there before.
Sad. Scared. Lost.
Despairing and suicidal.
But I found a way out.
I found hope and happiness,
you see,
because I found Jesus, and you can too!
He's at the Antler Liquor Store in Westcliffe, Colorado:
Ready to fill up your empty aching heart with unlimited love and peace.
Waiting to save your desperate hellbound soul and give you everlasting life in heaven.
He will turn your mourning into dancing,
and your sorrow into joy.
So you git yourself on down to Westcliffe now and git inside that there liquor store of theirs and git yourself all good and liquored up now, ya hear??
What a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we allllllll see Jesus,
We'll sing and shout the victory!
Nah, not even. He won't mind if I'm being honest. Don't trip, people mistake him for way worse allll the time.
Good to know. Does he like !PIZZA? I'll share some !BEER too if he wants.
𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖓
“Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” ~ Homer
😆 Well at least it sticks around to help fix what it broke!
!PIZZA
this.is.the.best.thing.i've.read.all.day.
Week, even.
Nah, probably all month.
I feel saved, dude. And just in time for Christmas.
Hallelujah!!
Glad you enjoyed the show! I just about lost it when I saw Jesus and his truck hanging on that door :D Westcliffe is a very, shall we say, red sorta place though, so I figured I'd probably get my ass kicked if I said anything. Honestly kinda surprised Jesus doesn't have a shotgun over his shoulder in that painting.
Welcome to Westcliffe:
Haaa!! Classy.
Please tell me that wagon is full of bones.
I don't think so. I will have to go back and check someday.
With Jesus you are saved, nice one☺️
I love it
It is interesting that the owners placed that face sculpture on the wall next to Jesus. Doesn't it look a bit like a drunken and angry Jesus? Is there some sort of implication that if you drink the Voodoo Ranger Hoppy Pack you will become the opposite of that peaceful guy above the truck? Doesn't seem like a very good sales tactic. Or, is it an illustration of the opposites - ying and yang - zen-ed out Jesus vs. angry-when-drunk Jesus? And what exactly should be learn from that?
I want answers.
It definitely looks like a drunk and angry someone. Whether it's Jesus or not I can't say for sure. Deep questions. I don't have the answers myself, but you could probably head over to Cowboy Church just down the street and ask the preacher there.
!PIZZA
Pretty sure I've seen a similar painting on the back of a semi somewhere. Who knows, maybe it was the cowboy preacher himself, doing his 9 to 5 as truck driver. It didn't have the angry guy sculpture-thing anywhere on the truck though. Shame. This is starting to play out in my head as some sort of terrible horror movie called The Jesus Trucker, and the angry drunk picture is basically a self portrait of the Jesus Trucker's alter ego who goes about doing terrible things, and then returns to the liquor store - which is his other side gig - and acts all like Jesus again and hangs up that crazy sculpture-thing sort of like how serial killers sometimes want to leave evidence in plain sight. Alright, it's 1AM and I'm pretty sure I completely stopped making sense around midnight. I'm going to stop typing now.
The Jesus Trucker sounds terrifying. When does it hit theaters? I assume next Halloween but I need to be sure so I can add it to my calendar.
You tell me. Not my genre - I do fairy tale endings.
Dammit you mean I have to write the thing if I want to go see it? Who's directing? Can I get that M. Night Shamalayight guy?
I have complete faith in you to work all this out:)
Truckdriver jesus!
He's got to be the best truck driver on the planet! Always uses his turn signals, never falls asleep at the wheel, and when the fuel runs low he just snaps his fingers and boom! Full tank again!
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LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
Well, finding him at one liquor store is a good indication he's probably in every liquor store and it is weekend. Gotta go meet with the Lord, thanks for the revelation👍
Pretty sure I read something like that in the Bible once :) !PIZZA time!
I was waiting for it, just waiting and then the zoom, zoom, zoom of Jesus painted on velvet. I think that's a likeness of @otherbrandt, hanging on the wall, just to the left of Jesus.
I had to read this three times, it's just so beautifully written.
Is that a coyote you caught a shot of? Cool photos, really liking that the mostly black with those hits of colour. Did you feel tempted to drive right through that gate with the dead end, private land ahead sign on it?
That's a fox actually. He lives somewhere in that area. I've been there many times and I see him often.
I was not at all tempted to keep driving through that gate. There could have been trail cameras, and people out here are armed to the teeth, so trespassing probably would have been…
Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks for swinging by :)
!PIZZA
Ah, a fox! You have a special kind of friend that's dropping by to see you. Ever talk to him?
Are there trail cameras everywhere in the US like that? I expect they are here in some places but I didn't see any when way out in several very isolated areas recently. People are far more armed to the teeth in the US, I seem to forget that, LOL. Definitely a very bad idea to go gate crashing. Gate with no signs and cameras would have made me stop.
You're welcome! I'm still getting used to flying and sometimes my raven wings get caught in the branches and slow me down. 🤪
Trail cameras are pretty common here. Hunters use them to monitor game at water sources (a lot of people actually consider it cheating), private landowners place them at access points to their property to keep tabs on trespassers, even the forest service uses them to track wildlife and human traffic. It's creepy as fuck. One of my upcoming Campsite Cleanups actually features a trailcam… that I didn't notice until I'd been there two days 😳
I tried talking to the fox once but never got a response, so now I just wave and mind my own business.
Holy crapola, that's totally creepy. I agree, that's cheating to monitor game at water sources. Lazy way to hunt, imo. Tech does not make one a good hunter.
Ugh, the world has definitely degraded into beyond disgusting. Thanks for detailing it, very good to know.
Hmmmm....it'd be in pictures, not words 😉. Sounds like he's keeping tabs on you. Please tell me he isn't wearing a camera on him.
LOL I didn't even think to check. Can't help but wonder now…
My mind has gone camera wandering in a whole weird way. 🤪
Did someone say just to the left of Jesus? Here I am.
😂😂😂
I KNEW IT.
Where velvet and vain
Combine
Stroked painted pain
Trucking
A glowing stain.
Looking
Left in vain
Another
Even darker stain.
Satan approves this message.
feels scared, shakes in boots, thinks about running for the trees
It's ridiculous, but I'm hungry to read your next post and have checked every day the last few days, LOLOL.
I've been out in the woods for a few days but I might have something ready sooner than later. Everything's weird when I'm on the road.
Nah, and I'm humbled to hear someone looks forward to reading my stuff :)
!PIZZA and !BEER
I figured you were out in the woods (perhaps freeing the woods from mechanical eyeballs).
Yeah, I do look forward to reading your stuff, even if I'm a little slow on the eyeball draw. This darn divorce is dicey with timing of steps. Also getting some flack from some, it freaks people out. I expect you are all too familiar with that.
You know, I actually didn't get much flack at all. When I told my mom she was like Oh, okay hon, that sounds fun. And most of my friends just seemed jealous. Yes believe it or not I do have friends.
Maybe it's because you have a car and your plan is different than mine? Might also be a bunch of other things, since I'm thinking this might be my last adventure, not that I wish that. I think that may be part of it and also the mirror effect back.
Yeah I think going on foot would have elicited a stronger response from my family/friends. That's a whole different world you're walking into there. Why would this be your last adventure? Planning to walk off the edge of the world or something?
I looked into the van thing last year, but then I thought about the direction of things and decided not to. Found out yesterday that renewal of driver's license is going to be tied to that stabbing thing. Mine's good for a bit, but after that won't be able to renew. From what I'm seeing, I need a complete divorce, not just separation.
No plans for that but also realistic in who knows when my bingo number will be up.
You have way bigger balls than me.
LOL, I'm not so sure about that. More like I see the writing on the wall and well, I've been tired of the game for several years. I passed the point of no return at the beginning last year and there's not a fibre of my being that can go back. I'm just done. I wouldn't call any of that bigger balls, lol.