Blind Faith?: Not a Chance! Five True Short Stories

By Jerry Ziemer

Blind faith is a term we often hear when we don't fully understand something. A great many of us use the term in relation to God, you know, "Just have blind faith." The title for this book is Blind Faith""Not a Chance. I believe there is a greater power than we can understand or comprehend, and that power is God. I believe God sends messages to all of us. We just need to keep our eyes, ears, and hearts open for them. I have had five personal experiences over the past forty years that I believe were messages sent from God for me to see at those appropriate times. I know other people who have had very similar things happen to them, and there are hundreds of books written about actual miracles. I profess that faith doesn't have to be Blind Faith; it can be 20/20 Faith. This book attempts to help you understand the importance of having Faith and Trust. Be open, stay on guard, you may be surprised at what you may see or hear. Thanks! Jerry Ziemer was born near Madison, Wisconsin, and was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He spent his junior year in high school in Los Angeles, California, and the first year of retirement, with his wife of fifty-one years, Julie, living near their son and his family in Manhattan, New York. They have three children, twelve grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. They currently live in a suburb on the south side of Milwaukee in a cute little condo. Jerry can be reached at P.O. Box 192, Hales Corners, WI 53130

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781642580051

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Blind Faith?

Not a Chance!

Jerry Ziemer

ISBN 978-1-64258-004-4 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64299-997-6 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-64258-005-1 (digital)

Copyright © 2018 by Jerry Ziemer

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Five True Short Stories

with the Same Message

Blind—Unwilling or

Unable to Understand

Faith—Confidence or

Trust in Something

Dedication

This compilation of five true short stories that have happened to me is dedicated to my father’s grandchildren, to the ones he met and the ones he’ll meet in the next life, and all their offspring. The stories are meant to show them they will always have an advocate looking over them in this life, who will be ready to greet them in the next life.

My father was an ordinary man who lived an extraordinary life. He came into this life with his mother, four brothers, and two sisters; his father was a Lutheran Minister who had died a few months before his birth. He left my mother, my two sisters, my brother, and me far, too early.

He was a good, decent, hardworking man of faith, and all his genetic traits are instilled in all his offspring, may they never forget. I promise, he will always be looking down on them and out for them. I pray these stories will help everyone who reads this to understand the reality and importance of Faith and the significance of the messages from God.

Preface

I have a good friend who has a doctorate degree in physics.

He’s extremely well-educated. He knows the elements, the chemicals, the mathematical formulas; he knows everything you need to know about things, stuff, and whatchamacallits. If there’s something he, by chance, doesn’t know, he knows where to find out or who to call. He’s of German heritage so it’s no wonder that he needs to know how things function. I believe it’s a German trait. They have to see things, to be able to explain things, to know how to engineer things like the Mercedes vehicles, possibly the best cars in the world. You know, seeing is believing.

His youth is behind him, no more base running, no more ball throwing or hitting, only fishing, and even fishing has lost some of its glamour. He’s unhappy with how the human body ages. It loses its mobility, the mind starts to age, everything seems to go south, almost like it’s the end of a journey. He’s a good Catholic man who in group conversations says he believes in Heaven, but in one-on-one, he seems to have doubts. He can’t see it, it’s hard to understand, the universe is huge, where could it possibly be? We spent some time on Memorial Day visiting some of our family graves and reminiscing. He’s not fond of talking about death.

When I talk about life after death and Heaven or the other place, he’s cordial and polite, but he seems to be uncomfortable. He is the impetus behind me writing these five short stories.

Many of you won’t believe some or all of these stories, and it’s just fine with me. God gave all of us a free will to use as we want, but he would like it an awful lot if we mainly used it to his favor, but it is our own to use. I know believing in something you can’t see is called Blind Faith, the main title to this journal, but I have experienced five things in my life over the past forty or so years, which have convinced me there is a Divine Power called God.

Now if there’s a Divine Power, The Trinity, then there is something happening beyond our own comprehension and beyond our understanding. If interested, look up St. Augustine and the Seashell. Now I also know there are literally thousands upon thousands of you who have experienced or seen much more profound things than I have seen. It would be fantastic if all of these were shared with one another.

My friend should not be thinking about the end of the journey but rather about the upcoming beginning of a new journey. Now I know we all love life, the exciting times, the painful times, although not quite as much. No one should be in a hurry to leave this wonderful life, what with all the potential enjoyment the future may hold. New experiences, new friends, new family members, and on and on, but we also know there is an ending somehow.

I saw a holy card at a funeral once. It said something like: Picture a great ship and your loved ones getting on it, they board, and you cry, you wave goodbye and shout, ‘I love you,’ and cry some more, as the great ship passes out of sight on the water. You’re left on the beach, lost and afraid! However, on the other shore there are multitudes of people, waving, clapping, and cheering as they see this great ship coming towards them with their loved ones on it.

This, the holy card and the author, who I do not remember, is a great description of dying. In the movie Field of Dreams, toward the end, actor James Earl Jones goes out to the corn field and parts the corn stalks and looks in. He turns to the camera with a sheepish grin and looks in again, turns again, parts the corn stalks and walks in—that should be our entrance to Heaven.

Blind Faith #1

Image on the TV screen

That was it. Three seconds on the TV screen—The Image!

How’d it happen, what caused it, why did it show up? So many questions. I’m not quite sure where to start, but I’ll start with the fact that I believe you also would have jumped into the water. It was just that kind of day in late June—sunny, warm. You’re on the boat with your folks and boyfriend. Why not enjoy the lake? You’d done it hundreds of times before.

Speaking about the boat and the lake, it all started back in 1959. For some reason, I guess it was living in Wisconsin, my dad wanted to build a boat. Not just any boat but a nice-size boat. One which could fit the whole family and some friends. Dad found plans for