The Strangest thing happened when I was flying in a transport plane on the way to Korea when I was in the Army. We came up on a rain storm (in fact flying mostly over it) when we sighted rainbow. Not one but two! And not just a regular rainbow but two circles of rainbow color. Yes, I often wondered what would have happened if we would have taken a detour and flew through the center of those two rainbows. Would there have been a pot of gold there for us to divide up or just a disapointment to bear. Perhaps the Strangest Thing that I experienced in my life was when I was in 3th Grade. I don’t remember what day of the week it was but I do remember that it was 4:30 pm. I was playing at my buddy Timmie’s house. His sister Mary Lou (she was 4 or 5 at the time) was out with us and we were playing catch. Or I should say Mary Lou was playing drop and Timmie and I were trying to pay catch. Timmie threw the ball over my head and after I retrieved it from the street. Timmie’s Mom came out and scolded us (me) for not watching for cars while playing catch. Like most kids, I rolled by eyes and looked to heaven and I saw the strangest thing: Straight up and slightly north were two objects in the sky that I had never seen before. One looked like a cartoon barbell (a rod with a ball on each end) which was rolling end over end in slow motion. Just a short way away from it was an object that looked like a cigar (one of those short fat ones). Both objects were silver in color. I asked Timmie’s Mom what they were and she said that they could be weather ballons as the government used those. Remembering at a later date, I doubted that these were weather balloons as the barbell almost magically stopped rotating and came to a stand still and the cigar came up close to the bar bell and almost touched. Then stood still in the sky. Historically looking back this was about 1947 and all that ‘to do’ about Roswell, NM was current. (Now don’t send me e-mails that I am a science fiction nut as I don’t think that either). After long thought on my ‘floating space objects’, I don’t think that I will have the answer for this ‘Strangest Thing’ in my lifetime and will need to check that out in heaven when …the things that are hidden will be revealed… I have learned one thing from this childhood event though which many people do not quite grasp. I had a choice in my life to become enthralled with my experience and permit that Strangest Thing to engulf every waking moment of my existance OR I could remember it, file it for future reference, and distinguish the things that are of major importance and the things of minor importance. LIKE WHAT? A few would be: God is not willing that any should perish but all should come to repentance. And there is salvation in no one else (Jesus, the Christ). Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit…let each of your regard one another as more important than himself. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus. Fixing our eyes upon Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. Of minor importance would be: millenial views which will be clarified by God when Christ returns; why someone else get more than I do; and on and on. Just think of it this way. On the day of judgement in the heavenlies. What will God think is the Strangest Thing in your life and mine? Rainbows, cigars, and barbells won’t matter much I’m thinken’. Perhaps the strangest thing would be ‘Why oh why would Jesus love me’?