I have suspected this for a while, but have avoided writing about it. I never want to make groundless accusations. However, this time I am certain of what occurred. I ate lunch today at Fatburger, a fast food outlet at 2815 W Peoria Ave., in Phoenix, Arizona, a few miles from my home. About four hours after that meal, I suffered from a terrible headache, diarrhea, and general weakness and discomfort. This is not the first time I have experienced these symptoms. This was, however, the most intense bout of food poisoning I’ve suffered to date. They have become a frequent occurrence after eating at certain restaurants where individuals who support the psychological attacks against me are employed. I suspect that they are part of the Neighborhood Watch / Community Policing groups working in concert with covert federal agencies spearheading this campaign. You may wonder what my feelings are after this event?
“Do not let yourself be conquered by the evil, but keep conquering the evil with the good.”—ROMANS 12:21.
MAY 29, 1953, was reportedly the first time man stood on top of the highest mountain peak in the world—Mount Everest, 29,028 feet [8,848 m] above sea level. With the backing of more than 450 men, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepalese Sherpa, successfully overcame the dangers of slippery ice, blinding snow, and lack of oxygen to reach the top of their five-and-a-half-mile-high goal. Tenzing, reflecting on his incredible achievement, made the following observations: “You cannot be a good mountaineer, however great your ability, unless you are cheerful and have the spirit of comradeship. . .” —Tenzing Norgay
Can we be cheerful, indeed happy, despite facing adversity? I know it can be so! This food poisoning, like many other schemes played out by my harassers, are intended to rob my happiness, replacing it with paranoia. It is intended to condition me to avoid contact with all sorts of people, out of fear. It is also a form of provocation, designed to coax me into a response that damages my reputation. This too will fail. Like Tenzig, I am determined to conquer this mountain. In fact, it has renewed my determination to love people, and widen out in my interests, contacts and experiences. If that means meeting up with more of my harassers, so what? “Conquering the evil with the good” involves treating even those who make themselves my enemies with respect, never abandoning the spirit of “cheerfulness and comradeship” that served those who conquered Mount Everest so well.
Of course, I will exercise needed caution. However, I will not allow this adversity to cause me to abandon my exercise of warm humanity. Indeed, I am empowered not only to climb mountainlike obstacles, but to move them as well! How so? Note what Jesus Christ told his disciples: “I tell you solemnly, if your faith were the size of a mustard seed (the smallest seed in Isrealite agriculture at that time) you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’, and it would move; nothing would be impossible for you.”—Matthew 17:20. Facing this adversity successfully is not impossible. With God’s backing, it will be accomplished!
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