Baoetry

The Tao is clean

The Tao is real

The way you walk

The way you feel

The Way is mine

The Tao is fast

The Tao is fine

The Tao’s with me

The Tao is the Way

The Tao is the master

The Tao is the answer

I am at one with the Tao

The Tao overcomes all things

The Tao is the way

The Tao is Wu Wei

Effortless non-action

Simplify your life

The Tao is the Way

Miracle man

2-3-24

MIRACLE MAN

Chapter 1

The morning started and it was a beautiful day. The sun was out and it was warm and pleasant.

John expressed his discouragement at the problem he was facing. There was a knock at the door, and when he answered, he found a large box on the step that looked very ominous. And inside was a primitive looking map displaying the location of what seemed to be a bomb.

John stepped away from the window and looked out as he moved. There was a man there on the sidewalk who disappeared quickly. He couldn’t quite see what the man looked like. John stared at the whole package for a while and was thinking about it. Picking up the phone, he called his boss, Rembrandt, who John addressed as Rem.

“En Securite…How may I help you?” said Arlene the receptionist.

“Hello Arlene! This is Saint John” John said in a cordial manner.

“Hello Saint John! How are you? Would you like to speak with master Rembrandt?” Arlene answered. He was not anything like a saint, but he liked to call himself that, at least to Arlene.

“Yes I would please,” John replied. John was transferred and connected in a brief moment.

“Good morning!” Rem said immediately.

“Hi, Rem it’s John. I think I have a mixed bag of trouble,” He said.

“What do you have now?” Rembrandt said.

“There’s a box and a map to a bomb inside of it.”

“How do you know it’s a bomb…” Silence for a second and then Rem said, “Where’s the box?”

John answered,”It was on the front step, and I brought it inside.”

John was considered an Antwerp agent, working behind the diamond industry but he was at times engaged in superlative challenges and crises, working for international law enforcement and government agencies. It was often messy.

“Well find out where this thing is,” said Rembrandt,” and find out who sent you a map to it…and who they are and what the hell they want.”

“I’ll let you know when I find out something,” John replied. That’s a lot of finding out he thought. John spoke a little more with Rembrandt and then hung up. He thought long and hard about this problem and wasn’t sure what to do next.

John took the box and put it in his car, right next to his briefcase. Then he took out the map for a minute and looked at it; Putting it back, John went inside the house.

Walking through the hallway to his office, an angel stood in the doorway.

“Who are you?” said John.

He was tall, quite beautiful, and well, he was glowing.

“I’m David… I’m here to keep you safe,” he said after a slight pause/

“What?? You’re who?” John answered.

“I’m here to keep you safe and look after you.” David the angel said. After a pause, he continued, ”I’m here on supernatural terms.”
David the angel smiled.
“Oh,” John said. He was slightly in shock.

Thielcom, his partner, then telephoned. As John quickly turned to get the phone, David the angel disappeared.

“Hi,” John said,”I think I have a problem,”

“What’s that?” Thielcom said.

“I have a box on my doorstep with a map inside to a bomb,”
He answered somewhat cautiously. “And I think an angel was just here.”
“A what?” said Thielcom.

“I may need some help,” John said.

Thielcom, who lived ten minutes away, came over immediately and they began evaluating the immediate problem. And they also briefly discussed the appearance of the angel.

The map was spread out on the table. Thielcom was exemplary in every way during the examination of the document. After a thorough scrutiny of the map, Thielcom concluded that it was likely phony.

“I think this map is a fake,” Thielcom said rather abruptly. He was shaking his head.” I don’t think this thing is real. I mean the map looks real, but I don’t think there’s a bomb there.

“So what does this mean? And why did someone sent it to me?”

The bomb on the map was labeled Sniper’s Pass, and that didn’t make any sense. Unless there was a sniper waiting for them there.

John decided to take a trip to what may be the sniper city.

He parked his car in the driveway and called the airport for flight information to where he thought he may be going. Before going to sniper city, he had to go see Ms. Aszah Wujamuh, one of his best sources of information. And just to be sure, he took the mysterious box back inside his house and put it out of sight under his desk.

So what does it mean?

I don’t know

But I’m going to find out

He went out in the dense darkness and proceeded where the light led him. The light was from electronic lanterns. And there were no people around except in carriages. And they were in essence, gone.

The sun had gone down and there was darkness and growing gloom facing the west. Twiliight and clouds covered everything. There seemed to be spirit surrounding everything with the aura of early spring

John picked up Thielcom, and they set off for about an hour’s ride. After they got to the city, they immediately went to the Chinese emporium of Ms. Aszah Wujamuh. John thought secretly that Aszah Wujamuh was a Chinese Transsexual, but he wasn’t sure, and Aszah had a lot of information that she was willing to share. They found a place to park and then quickly went inside. They looked around and soon Aszah Wujamuh came out of the back, wearing a gorgeous shining Asian gown.

“Hello, my friend! “ said Aszah Wujamuh with pleasure and enthusiasm.
John kissed his hostess and did a little bow.

“What’s going on gentlemen?” Aszah Wujamuh said.

“Ah not too much,” John said, expressing some doubt and concern, and hesitated a couple of seconds. “I have one situation. I got a package delivered to my house and inside of it was a map leading to a bomb.”

“A bomb? That’s no good!” Aszah Wujamuh replied. “Who do you think gave it to you? And why?”

“That’s what we’re here to find out…have you heard anything about this or even remotely close to this?” John asked.

“No, I have not. And I would be truthful and tell you if I did,” Aszah Wujamuh said. There was a slight pause in her commentary,” But I will tell you this…There is the imminence of something bad that is going to occur, so be very careful.”

“How do you know that?” said Thielcom.

“There are a lot of hidden signs that you can look for,” Aszah Wujamuh said. ”I have insight into those things,”

“What should we look for?” John said diplomatically.

“You have to watch out for people that may want to harm you. So be very careful.” Aszah said, “ As of course, I know you always are…”

John and Thielcom looked at each other, with watchful and doubtful expressions.

“Alright,” John said, “ If you hear anything, please let us know right away,”

“I will contact you of course,” she answered, smiling. “Would you gentleman like some tea?”

They actually would enjoy a cup of Aszah Wujamuh tea, but they declined and left the shop, after giving the owner a little hug.

They stopped on the sidewalk before going any further, and looked up and down, seeing men approaching and sensing danger.

There were two, then three, then four and possibly more coming toward them, and coming together from all directions until they looked at the pair of agents with malice. The two agents without much thought backed up into Aszah Wujamuh’s shop and prepared for trouble. Aszah came out of the back of the shop and looked at them with alarm.

“Un oh, what’s wrong?” she said with trepidation.

And before John could even answer, the gang burst into the bazaar, the crowd almost filling the store. He looked around and wished there were other customers in the store, but there were not.

The two were surrounded by the group and taken captive and thrust into the back of the gift shop. Aszah Wujamuh was taken captive as well. The gang looked very malicious and spiteful and their intentions obviously of great interest.

“Mr. Sandborg,” One of the gang leader, said clearly. “We would like some information. Who is behind the Chasm factory? Who invented it, who is in charge of it?”

John and Thielcom looked at each other with doubt and confusion. “ I don’t know what you’re talking about,” John said

“Mr. Sandborg, you have to know what this is all about,”

Suddenly there was an outbreak of great violent assault upon the agents from all sides. They were under attack by the large gang of heathen men and barely were able to defend themselves. There was a mini war going on inside the shop.
Aszah spoke to one of the leader in Chinese, which she thought he might understand. He looked Asian, but that’s all she could figure out.

Aszah Wujamuh said,” This has gone far enough. You must stop now!”
The chief gang leader stepped forward and faced Aszah Wujamuh. He slapped her face and said,” You be quiet now!”
She tried to fight him but could not. The fight ended, but the store suffered great destruction. The men ran out of the store without getting or giving answers, and without a degree of cooperation from anybody.

At the end of this incident, there was chaos and destruction in the room. Broken glass and gifts all over the place. John and Thielcom were helping Aszah Wujamuh clean up the shop, sweeping the mess and picking everything up. And John and Thielcom had taken a great amount of injuries during all the fighting.

Mr. Cat was hanging around the front room. He spoke to Mr. Cat. “ If only you could speak English,”

Going back home, John had a lot on his mind as well as sufficient first aid to apply to his wounds.

John entered the house with great caution, watching carefully for any further danger, or dangerous characters for that matter.

Upon getting in the house, John called Rembrandt, on the house phone.

“Thielcom and I went to see Aszah Wujamuh,”

“What happened?”

“Well we were attacked; kind of from all sides.”

“Were they just thugs trying to rob you?”

“No, they knew who we were”

There was silence for a moment.

“Go on,” Rembrandt said

“I don’t in any way know who they were” John replied. “There is one thing I remember. They asked about the chasm factory. I don’t know what that is.”

“Yes, we’ll have to talk about it,” Rembrandt said.

“Oh, do you know about it?”

“Well, I’ve heard some things,” Rembrandt replied.

“So there is such a thing,” John said.

“I don’t really know for sure” Rembrandt answered, “But we’ll have to talk about this”

John spoke well of the events today because of the way it had ended up. No one injured, no one shot and killed and, no bomb apparently, at least so far

Now the question remained, who was the gang and exactly what did they want-

Baoetry

The Tao is clean

The Tao is real

The way you walk

The way you feel

The Way is mine

The Tao is fast

The Tao is fine

The Tao’s with me

The Tao is the Way

The Tao is the master

The Tao is the answer

I am at one with the Tao

The Tao overcomes all things

The Tao is the way

The Tao is Wu Wei

Effortless non-action

Simplify your life

The Tao is the Way

Baoetry

The Tao is clean

The Tao is real

The way you walk

The way you feel

The Way is mine

The Tao is fast

The Tao is fine

The Tao’s with me

The Tao is the Way

The Tao is the master

The Tao is the answer

I am at one with the Tao

The Tao overcomes all things

The Tao is the way

The Tao is Wu Wei

Effortless non-action

Simplify your life

The Tao is the Way

Matthew 7:7
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:”

Matthew 21:22
“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.”

From inside he fought them and came to a great awakening and came to a great achievement

The green and white patches of light; And the seed puffs everywhere floating down to the ground, filling the air, slowly covering the ground; floating, hovering, everywhere the eye can see. Birds and ants everywhere.

The path slowly ends and there’s the wooden bench awaiting me.

It’s hot , it’s humid. I cough a little probably from the pollen- Another bench, in another part of the dunes, and lots of mosquitoes. So I go to a third bench down by the river; and there’s lots of boats out today.

A wizard  walked down the path. He was wearing a long robe out of some shiny cloth. White birds were flying in the distant background. He had a bag over his shoulder.

Hello, he said and then, a group of boys came by and in that instant he vanished; They went by, and kept going. Soon, he reappeared. He could have quickly emerged from behind something, I wasn’t sure.