I FELL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL - PART II - 'OUR FIRE WALL'.

Oct 13, 2025

This is a thorny story to tell, so I’m walking circumspectly about how exactly to tell it. I have to be careful, because it involves people I’d rather not offend..

The drive home from the job site last Friday morning, did not just involve me falling asleep at the wheel.. Before that happened, we got a flat tire enroute!!

It was one peculiar trip!

Though, there were reasons for everything that happened. As is always the case.

THE FLAT

About 1 hour into the nearly 3 hour drive, we needed gas, and Nick said, ‘Let’s take the rest stop coming up’. I got off the highway, and we filled up. As I was getting back onto the toll road home, I noticed the car was pulling to the right. Nick noticed that his side of the car seemed to be leaning downwards. We looked for another exit to get out and check the tire. That took 5 miles. But we drove slowly in the right lane, took an exit where there were gas stations, parked.. and got out to look.

The right passenger tire was flat as a pancake.

At that point, about 6:30 am, and having been up working all night long, we didn’t feel like waiting for a tow, or for mechanic shops to open in the area. So we bought a can of air/tire-glue, filled the tire, and I managed to drive us home. (The photo above is from later the same day. When we finally got out of bed on Friday, took the car to a tire place, and had to buy a new tire - Ours was unfixable. A nail was in the outer rim area..

HAPPILY.. we didn’t get the flat doing 80 MPH in the left lane.

It was after this episode that Nick climbed into the back seat and fell fast asleep - and I continued driving, but wound up falling asleep myself - while driving. More on that in a minute..

There is so much about this to tell you, I hardly know where to begin.

LETS START WITH→ KNOWING THIS FIRST - ‘NOTHING EVER HAPPENS IN A VACUUM’.

As it is written:

‘The Curse (whatever that happens to be) comes NOT WITHOUT CAUSE.’

Proverbs 26:2

If ONLY the saints would understand this tremendous truth, they could save themselves SO MUCH PAIN.

It is this verse, (among others) that points out that all SICKNESS & DISEASE has a REASON BEHIND IT.

We do not just ‘get sick’. Disease is not one big crap shoot - we are NOT mere ‘walking statistics’. NO! Read the verse in reverse -

‘...the curse COMES WITH A CAUSE.’

That’s the best news you ever heard! It eliminates all fears. It tells you that all you have to do is identify the cause.. remove it, and POOF! THE SICKNESS IS GONE! (ask me..)

(Don’t feel too bad if this is news to you. Sometimes even ministers don’t believe the Bible. Sadly, I know 8 personally who.. when they got sick- went to doctors, and hospitals.. and died).

My youngest sister who is in the hospital (with TB? (yet TBD) - and other issues that she graciously listed for me on Thursday night).. called me today again. She filled me in on her treatment plan; Among other things, she will be given a ‘Colonoscopy’.

She said she will have to drink some ‘crummy stuff’. (I know what she’s talking about because in early 2023.. I had a check up at the VA hospital, to figure out why I had a few months of gas and bloating. (sorry.. ( :>[}). They wanted to give me a ‘Colonoscopy’. I asked what that was for. They said to ‘check for cancer’.

I knew I didn’t have cancer, and wouldn’t take the test if I thought I did.. I would just ask Jesus why I had cancer, and what to repent for..

I declined the test.

(As it turned out - the VA sent the ‘crummy stuff’ to me in the mail anyway. I never drank it; Instead, I finally put myself on Chlorine Dioxide and DMSO for a few days.. and the issue disappeared!) I saved the stuff.. I’ll go take a photo to show you.

Here it is.. still sealed:

But then my sister said this today… “These things just happen”. (Meaning her sicknesses).

I wanted to scream.. ‘NO THEY DON’T’. But my experience with her is that she gets all bent out of shape and hangs up when I allude to any responsibility for her own ills. Because this is not really about her getting healed. It’s a demonic lust for sympathy. (My 64 year old sister has also been anorexic since childhood.. And that’s what the anorexic demon is.. an inordinate lust for attention and sympathy. The victim starves themselves so that the world notices ‘how much they’re suffering’. In fact, group therapy was tried with anorexics.. but it backfired. Instead of ‘group support’, everyone in the room tried to outstarve each other and be the MOST suffering one…)

She also complained about the hospital staff, and the sub par treatment she was getting. My blind brother does that too with the staff at his residence.. (Some of it deservedly.. they have stolen his phones) But you see, neither of them really want deliverance. It’s really all about ‘me’, and my ‘griefs. They want everyone to feel pity and take care of them. That in a nutshell is why they don’t recover.

People .. in so many cases,.. are sick physically.. because their focus is only on themselves.

Though I digress.

Back to the trip home Friday morning..

There is a REASON I had 2 potentially dangerous episodes on the way home. I think it had everything to do with the →place my son and I had been working for the last 2 weeks. It is a very spiritually dark place. The Lord has already given me a number of ‘witnesses’ to what is hidden in this Catholic church.. (not this one only though)

..It will be unpleasant to share… I’m trying to decide how to do so..

THE CHRISTIAN FIRE WALL:

Before I continue with that part of this story, let me share something about the ‘FIRE WALL’ that all of us have around us, who →‘TRUST and OBEY GOD’.

I have a fire wall around me.

What do I mean? I am talking about the one that the Prophet Elijah showed the young man in II Kings 6:17..

“And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see.

And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw:

and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.”

If THAT is what God will do for a servant, what WON’T He do for a SON?

At nearly 69 years of age (birthday coming up).. I have lived on my own most of my life, served in the military, drove a taxi cab, been close to homeless, lived in penury, lived with abundance, been in sickness and - now - perfect health .. In a word, ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me’1. Yea!~

And through it all, I have enjoyed having God as a Father - who took me up when my parents forsook me2 - and taught me more than they ever could have.

At this point, I would like to say that I get the feeling that HE (God) also guards me jealously! I will not even try to list the times He has come to my rescue; revealed to me critical things unknowable by normal means, given up to me the enemies in my camp, even recompensed some of them3 and SHOWED it to me!.. guarded my life, guarded my son’s life, guarded his dad.. I have endless examples.. so I won’t bore you with too many details.

But here’s a few cool ‘car’ episodes..

In 2019 I needed new rims for my 72’ Chevy Suburban, but the tire dealership had no idea where to get rims like mine. They not listed in any catalog, and had too many nut holes compared to newer cars. Then.. a mechanic happened to notice in the corner of the shop, a ‘rim’ sitting there - waiting for someone to pick it up who had ordered it but never came for it. The rim fit my car perfectly - and guided their purchase of 3 more! Haha.

PAC accident

In 2014 I was participating in a group visit to the Rayburn Office Building, with a political action committee. I found a parking spot on D Street, a few blocks away. (That’s the 2007 Honda CRV I still have, (photo below) with the Virginia plates that coincidentally, had my initials! ‘VCB’. I did not order them.)

As soon as I parked the car by the curb, I had barely opened my door to get out, when there was an explosion! I sat there - still in the car - but in shock!

A Chrysler 300 had come barreling down the road, not waiting for an idling truck to move, squeezed between the truck and my parked car without slowing down from at least 30MPH, and hit the end of my door as I moved to step out. (Not the side of my door mind you, but the END of my door - she was THAT close to me).

Had she come a split second later, my leg - if not my whole body - would have been where her big grill slammed us. (When the cops arrived, they tried to make me out to be at fault. The truck was gone, and they said that I’d ‘opened my door into traffic’. The gal who hit me (a Christian) said, ‘No. It’s my fault’. Her insurance company fixed my car. I still have it.)

I have no idea how God times these things.. I’m just glad He does.

OUTRAGEOUS TAXI STORIES

In 1981 - I, a brand new cab driver - drove my NYC Yellow cab in what the papers called a ‘life threatening blizzard. It fell April 6th, and inundated the east coast; Many cab drivers just stayed home that night. I - with the driving-in-a-blizzard-boot-camp called Syracuse University behind me, went to work, and drove my cab all night long, rescuing people stranded in the blizzard.

At 4 in the morning, the Lord led me by revelation to a man buried in the snow - and I got to save his - Walter Rhodes - life!. (Which story was later told in Joe Berlinger’s 1989 classic film documentary - Outrageous Taxi Stories’. Berlinger interviewed, by his count, 800 cab drivers, took 6 of us and made the true film).

(Berlinger -for some reason - removed this film from his internet offerings. I still have a copy though, that he gave me in 1989’)

ENEMIES IN MY CAMP

I started a blog called “The Parallel Universe’ in 2011, which is a lot like this Stack that I write now. (The blog had the lion’s share of its readership in military posts, and cities like Mountainview CA, Menlo Park, CA, San Fran- and others where the big spy guys are located - Google, Quora, Facebook, Youtube, etc, based on the ‘readership map’ I maintained. The blog was erased from the internet in 2021, which is why I started a Substack to repace it).

The home invasions began in 2014. The names are ‘Andrew, Kelly, Kirk, Carlos, Sobhan, et al, along with some we never let in. They showed up as pretend renters. The holy spirit always showed me what was going on. Some would pay the rent monthly, move in some ‘coctail dresses’, or a large TV, but never move themselves in. A few of them I kicked out. A few left early when their missions failed. (Some of the stories are not without humor! Because HE clearly has a sense of humor!)

Their missions always fail. In keeping with the plaque over my red kitchen door.. (In 9 years only 1 person has ever noticed it… But it might just as well be my motto..)

I Chronicles 12:17..

‘And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them,

If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you:

but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands,

the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.’

You may recall Andre drew a picture of one of the more recent invaders, when she paid for a room, but left in a hurry due to some emergency..

She had moved in with only a large laptop case, and antenna..

LOVE NOTES

Besides being rescued, or protected, or receiving revelations, etc, the Lord sends me love notes. In 2018, He began to send me ‘44’s. It’s a God number. (That’s why there will be 144,000 preserved from His Wrath to come). He still sends them all the time. It works like this.. my mind on other things, He’ll move me to pick up my phone, and..

HEART ROCKS

While I lived in Virginia, hiking trails down there along the Potomac River and other places, He began to lead my eyes to heart rocks. I have about 100 of them now. Here’s a few of my favorites.. Found exactly as they look..

Here’s a closeup of the cool one with a heart as if engraved on the top!..

One day, I found this in a river bed - where mica rocks are. It has an indentation in the shape of a ‘V’, with mica illuminating it! (The mica has fallen out over the years, but you can still make it out I think).