Eccles' Stories

           Our lesson will come from Proverbs 13:20: "He who walks with the wise                                                                                                                                   men will be wise                                                                                                                      ...

                     Do you really know me?  Do you know my victories or disasters?  For the most part,  you do not.  That is the role life has played in my life; Christ has played since I was ten!                   For at ten I accepted Christ as my personal Lord and Savior.  This was all made possible  when Christ went to the cross, died for our sins, and was resurrected again in three days.  It was after  that that Christ sent the Holy Spirit to be our comforter.                   He knows our feelings and thoughts at this very hour.  May Christ bring the Holy Spirit  into your life through baptism today. PDE

       Count your troubles as joys, for they give you an opportunity to preach Christ crucified.  An  example of this is found in Acts 5:40-42: "And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the  apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of  Jesus, and let  them go.  So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were worthy to suffer  shame for His name.  And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and  preaching Jesus as the Christ.  Being beaten was the apostles' troubles; we find it caused them to not  cease preaching Christ as their opportunity.            In Acts 16:25-34, it tells how Paul and Silas were in jail (that is their trouble), and they praised  God, and were released.  In the long run, they saved the jailor as well as the jailor's whole household, which was t...

             It has been brought to my attention that not everyone in the world has a Bible.  I have just  recently finished reading the four gospels.  While they all basically report about Christ's life & times as  well as  His death & resurrection.  They are also different in other ways.        Matthew was an apostle of Christ, as well as being a tax collector.  Not much is really known about  Mark, other than that, he was an early-day Christian, and a Servant of our Lord and Savior Jesus  Christ.   Luke was a physician who wrote two letters to a man named Theophilos.  The first letter was about Christ, entitled Luke, the second being about the church, entitled Acts.  Then there was John,  who focused his book, as well as I, II, &III John, on the love of  God. Paul D Eccles

                         A royal decree flew into the window and landed on Prince Michael's face.  Now the prince was still in bed, but felt something on his face which he knocked off and turned over to go back to sleep.  The royal decree had other ideas and yelled, "OUT OF BED LAZY BONES I AM A ROYAL DECREE FROM THE KING.  I AM NOT TO BE IGNORED!  YOU AND IVORY ARE TO APPEAR  BEFORE THE KING IN ROYAL ATTIRE FOR BREAKFAST PRONTO!!!  The royal decree then  burned up.             The prince nodded his head, causing an ivory collar to appear around Ivory's neck.  After that, he put his royal ring on his finger and threw his cape around him.  The cape caused him to get dressed. He then took his cape covering Ivory and himself, and flew to the king's palace.             The king casually greets them with croissants and tea f...

       Prince Michael was taking his time in the bathroom, making sure every part of  him was beautiful and shining,  He took a shower in body spray just in case he might meet that special someone. Prince Michael spent most of his time with Ivory, so once, when a reporter had nothing to write about  they started a rumor that the prince and Ivory were lovers.       Ivory did not like reading this in the newspaper one bit, and so she laid the paper on the ground and  peed on it.  She then very carefully took the prince aside and explained what it said.  Telling  him that to stop such rumors, he needed to see other people besides just her.  She said, "It is giving you and me a bad reputation, and the newspapers do talk.  I, for one, do not care for one moment about what they are saying about me.  Not that being compared to your ancestor Gym Stone is a bad thing, but I am not going to turn into a person....

            On the next day, Prince Michael, found himself questioning how he would ever come upon a  familiar.  So, he went to ask his parents how he might find one.  He went as far as to tell them of the  oath he had made to the Troubled Youth.  Both of his parents thought he had acted foolishly, but helped  him nonetheless.  Lord Baltimore assured him, "that there are few who become familiars due to  committing a crime."         His Mother then stated, "Most familiars come to be through a deep spiritual bond, often being  shown through active meditation, spells, and focused intentions.  Now in your case I would find out if the Troubled Youth had made a spiritual bond with any animal.  If not had they seen one while asleep or in a deep trance.  If they do, find an animal fitting it's description and cast a spell on it."        Michael turned to Iv...

                 Psalms 1:3                            "He is like a tree                                      planted by streams of water..."ESV               Job       8:11                            "Can the papyrus grow where there is no marsh?                              Can the reeds flourish where there is no water?"ESV             In both cases, this speaks of water, a nourishment of life.  A thing needed for physical as well as Spiritual growth.  From the very beginning, we need water to be born of the Spirit.  In Mark 16:16, it s...

                           People start trembling at the appearance of Prince Michael.  One day, Prince Michael turns to Ivory and says, "I do wish people would quit trembling in my presence, after all, I am  an average teenage witch boy.  As so are they all average teenage witches."                Ivory clears her throat as they flash into another room, into another building.  She then states, "Yes, you are normal with one exception from these other teens, and that is you are of royal lineage to the throne!"              The chubby instructor, blowing bubbles out of his pipe, came over to Michael and said,  "My Lord, the class would like to know what is bothering you on such a sunny day as today."              Prince Michael tries to blow the instructor off at first, but that only mak...

       The next day, Peter was quick to do as asked and did research on Prince Michael's genealogy while the prince was away at school.  It also gave Peter something to do in servitude to the Prince, while the  Prince of the Witches was away.  He started out by following the Bloodstone's genealogy as far as it would go.       The strange thing is, the Bloodstone's genealogy would only go back three hundred years.  It seems  like, before that time, there had been a prince by the name of Luke Blood.  This Prince had a familiar by the name of Gym Stone (Who had beforehand used her powers to cause a mortal to fall in love with her, she was therefore been imprisoned into the body of a cat as a familiar till she learned true love  with someone.)  whom he loved, and frightfully she felt the same for him.  One night, as they lay  together, she was freed from being a cat and became a beautiful woman.  As th...

        It was my first day of school, and I had yet to get used to the idea of being royalty.  It was time for   class to begin, but Ivory and I were standing around at the back of the class waiting for it to begin.   About that time, a chubby-faced fellow with a pipe in his hands said, "Prince Michael, whenever you  and your familiar would like to take a seat in King's Row.   The rest of us can sit down, and class will  begin."       I did not understand at first that he meant me.  Ivory, however, did and took human form so as she could lead me (like a little child) to King's Row.  There she sat me where I belonged so that class could  begin.  Unbelievably to me, after I was seated, the rest of the class sat down too.  The instructor  thanked Ivory and me for sitting down so that classes could begin.        He then started teaching on the monarchy and how i...

                                                                                                  It was the evening before the wedding, and as best man, I was going over everything that was  to be with my father, Prince Baltimore Darwin.  Of course, along with me were Ivory and Peter, Ivory  being the only lady in the palace.  It was explained to me more clearly that Peter was my property. While Ivory was my familiar, there to serve and protect me, she was not there like Peter was.               On the wedding day, I was to wear nothing but a hooded robe and sandals. This is what  everyone in the wedding party would be wearing.   To which I asked, "Does that include the f...

      My mother popped into my room without me going to the door.  I was still in my underwear for  goodness sake.  I felt it was downright rude of her not to use the door when I was practically nude.   Her being a witch was just exercising her powers to pass through solid objects, and I did not like it one bit!  Mother just explained to me I'd be able to pass through solid objects someday, too, probably  sooner than I'd like to think of.        By this time, I had changed myself under the covers.  Mother just took this time to make herself a  chair out of thin air and sat upon it.  She then stated, "Michael, in a few months (Jan 1), your father and I am to be married.  I know that you do not like thinking of Prince Baltimore Darwin as your Father, but nonetheless, he is.  He also wants to place his last name legally at the end of yours so that all three of our names will be the same, and you ...

           It was 11:00 AM, and Peter Alexander was doing his job sitting by the door.  As a familiar, Ivory  was doing her job as she stretched out to protect Michael from all harm. Michael was just waking  up from his nighttime slumber when all of a sudden the door cried out, " Prince Baltimore Darwin ,  along with a fuzzy-faced fellow, are here to see Sir Michael. Should I show them in?"            Peter tells the door to open up as the two visitors enter.  Ivory starts to growl, but is quickly hushed as it is explained to her not to growl at the Prince, for he is the Head Master of the School, nor  to growl at the fuzzy-faced fellow, for he holds a Doctorate in Psychology, and tells people how to run  their lives.    Peter then welcomes the two visitors, as Michael clumsily gets dressed.  Prince Darwin sets down by Michael introducing him (and the rest of the room) to Dr. Ro...