God Is Alive: After Dinner Conversation, #65

By Ville V. Kokko

Synopsis: A would-be atheist philosopher has a personal interaction with God and is given a physics defying miracle of proof.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: After Dinner Conversation
• Release date: Aug 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9798201005511

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God Is Alive

After Dinner Conversation Series

IT WAS THE STRANGEST conversation I've ever had. I still don't know what to think of it. Yet, I cannot forget it.

At that time, I was getting a little worried about my friend, Thomas Cale. We used to run into each other now and then in our small town, and sometimes we would agree to go out for a drink and talk. But for a month or two now, I had barely caught a glimpse of him.

I suspected the change had happened after that visit of his to the city. I didn't know what it had been about, and though I knew he had come back, I wasn't even sure how long he had stayed there. I was lucky to have been aware he was going in the first place. I had run into him by chance when he was going to the train station. He had almost barged into me in his hurry, even though it was a good fifteen minutes before the next train would leave.

I can vividly remember the way he looked then. There was a strange expression in his eyes, opened unusually wide in a kind of awe. Probably there was fear, wonder, delight and doubt there at the same time. Or maybe this is just hindsight. In any case, I could see that he was affected. By what, that I couldn't get out of him. When I asked where he was going, he seemed on the verge of telling me all about it, but in the end, he said he'd not say anything yet, other than that he had something in his bag that he needed to have examined by experts. It all sounded very odd, but I walked away with the impression he had found some old and valuable antique.

It might have been weeks later when he got back – still too preoccupied to contact me, not even to