In some ways I was looking forward to the rapture yesterday... wondering who might go and who might stay. I've got this very pious, self-admitted "VERY far right" couple living down the street from me who used to wave and make small talk when I would walk by with the kids and the dog. Until I ran for the State Senate in 2004, that is. My views on abortion and same sex unions became very public knowledge at that point so, what once had been a warm, neighborly, eagerly-given smile, became an icy, wordless glare. (I still wave and smile as I drive or walk by, I guess to show that I can be shallowly friendly to someone who has different views and beliefs than I... Is that a worthy demonstration of openness or a sly demonstration of superiority?!)
Anyway, I just was wondering what would happen to them yesterday... I still haven't seen them or actually looked for them post-6 p.m, so I suppose anything is still possible!
I was excited to be in the Apple Store for a few hours yesterday because I figured that if something was going to go down it would be evident in: a) that excitement-filled place of remarkable, other-worldly communication devices; or b) that Satan-sponsored den of the dark side. (Is "Satan" even the politically correct term for the devil these days? Help me out here, please.) You can take your pick of a description of the Apple Store from the two, admittedly divergent, choices above, or come down somewhere in the middle.
I went with my friend Mearah, a wonderful healer/clairvoyant/medical intuitive and, frankly, I was curious about what would happen to HER, thinking that it could go either way. At one point she was at the Genius Bar and I was surfing the web for hard cases for my "slightly-damaged-due-to-a-fall" Macbook Pro - hey, that sounds like it could describe me! - and I turned around to look for her and she was nowhere to be seen. I thought maybe she'd gone to the restroom, so I waited to see... still waited ... nowhere! My searching even caught the eye of a roaming salesperson and a trainee and we had a few laughs as I told him why I was looking around so intently. Then, my friend appeared at my side with another Apple employee and we laughed again about how I thought she might have been taken up - turns out she was outside with the employee doing something. (OK, so what if you were in the shower when your time came to rise up? What if you were in the middle of an intimate act with your self or another? What if you were cooking something on the stove? What if you were in the middle of a tennis match? Driving a semi? Some rapid disappearances would have collateral consequences and would lead to some not so nice results. Oh well, I guess those collateral consequences would just have to be handled by the damned...i.e. you and me... and, yes, I'm being presumptuous!)
It seems, then, that Mr. Harold Camping was wrong about yesterday. I'm told, though, we have another opportunity to be witness to a rapture in 2012. I'll be looking forward to that again, as I was just reminded by a long-time friend on a Facebook chat, who knew me well in law school -ages 21 to 24 - that, based on his knowledge alone, I'm not going anywhere! Happy to still be here with all of you and experiencing the remarkably transformative inner rapture available to all!
Be well...