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I've been seeing things...numbers, specifically. I started out seeing the numbers 9-1-1. Yep, I'm serious. Every time I would look at the clock it was 9:11. At first I thought it was a coincidence, but it was happening an unusual number of times to be merely coincidence. Afraid of sounding like a nut, I didn't tell anyone about it. But then my friend shared with me that she had been seeing the numbers 3-3-3 everywhere for a long time. I asked her what she thought it meant, and she said she didn't know, so we looked it up on the internet. Apparently there are several groups of people that see number patterns too. There are all kinds of numerology experts thats see all kinds of deeper meanings in numbers and number patterns. It's the kind of thing that reminds me of my teen years when they would show us videos about how all rock music artists are from the devil, and they would "prove" it by showing how the album art contained all these supposed hidden Satanic symbols. (If you turn the album upside down and look at it during the autumnal equinox, while wearing special glasses, you could "clearly" see that the background was actually a pentagram or goat's head...or maybe both).

After sifting through all the loonies, I did find a group of Christians who all claim to have frequent sightings of 3-3-3. Their answer to this odd phenomemon is to pray. And to specifically pray the promise of Jeremiah 33:3 which says, "Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." So, my friend and I decided that we would join Club 3-3-3. Every time we see the numbers 3-3-3, we will stop and pray that God will show us great and mighty things that we could never know or discover on our own. Call me crazy, but since that day, I stopped seeing 9-1-1 and started seeing 3-3-3. The clock says 3:33, I was in room 333 in the hospital, there were 333 parking spaces left in the garage, and it goes on and on. I've got my husband pointing out "sightings" now. And each time we stop and pray. We ask God to show us great and might things. Things we don't know.

I don't know about you, but there are lots of things I don't know. For example, I don't know why I'm sick all the time and keep getting additional diagnoses for new diseases I supposedly have. I don't know why the treatments that seem to be working for other people with these diseases don't seem to work for me. I don't know which doctor out there will take the time to actually see me as a whole person and not as a symptom. I don't know where I'm going to get the money to keep on paying $50 a visit to see specialist after specialist and $30-$50 to pay for drug after drug that they prescribe. I don't know which doctors to believe and which treatments to accept. I don't know which symptoms are from disease and which are from all the drugs they're giving me. I don't know how I'm going to come up with $15,000 to pay for a surgery my insurance won't cover but all my doctors say I must have. But God knows. So I'm going to keep asking. Every time those numbers jump out at me on the game clock during a Steelers game or the time counter on the CD player. God wants to show me great and mighty things, but I have to first call on him.

There are things you probably don't know. So join the club. Club 3-3-3. And get ready to discover great and mighty things.