| He had one of his cronies confront me about why I hadn't been to services, and I explained that I felt like there was a wall up between us, and I couldn't figure out why. So I went back. It didn't take long until he called me up front and made me repeat something after him that went something like this: He said, "A lot of you might think [he] has his act together since he's on the air (I was a DJ, as was his ex). If you only knew!" And then he said, "Repeat after me, 'I see a big eraser taking away the resentment in your life. I will be sincere when I pray for people." And then he closed with, "If anyone else in here is playing games with your life, get out now!" He put his "Iron Claw" on my forehead, and I went down because I thought I was supposed to. I felt nothing... except confusion. When I opened my eyes, the first person I saw was Mike Hatchcock, who had previously dated Danny's Jill, and would later marry a girl who would give me a very hard time in what could easily have been a "seduction set-up." I wouldn't swear to this, but the cronies and events are in place. However, I realize that in God's realm things are seldom what they really seem to be. I stop short of accusing conspiracy. I wanted to get at the bottom of what caused Danny to call me up front, and he finally called me at the station and just sang to me! I knew nothing about Jill (which had been a part of the scandal even before the ex left, with absolute certainty), and I found it strange that he would sing to me over the phone, in a lullaby way. It was creepy, as he worked in the phrase, "Things I put with with [the ex] for ten years." Obviously, he thought I knew about him and Jill. I absolutely did not. Cut to the wedding date: almost everyone from church is invited. I am not. Jill's mother--a secretary at the church--and he had stolen the mailing list for the congregation to invite them all to the wedding to attempt to drive a wedge in the congregation. There was ZERO respect for the pastor, who was "wrong" in their eyes, because a studio audience was polled, and the "family" chose the top answer on the board: "IT'S OK!" I continued to try to be Danny's friend, even when he was banned from the church for a year and even forbidden to talk to anyone from the staff. When he called me "a lot of a dark person," (as if he wasn't) that was the final straw. I said, "That's it!" and entered his phone number into the pager of a pastor who was trying to team up with others against me because I had the nerve to seek to serve God rather than jockey for position. When power-hungry pastors meet, there can be evil a-brewing, and as Steve Taylor said, "Where the innocent congregate, I manipulate." They together (other pastor and Danny) tried to get me fired. They think they were successful, but they weren't. The radio station GM (who was never on Danny's side by any stretch of the imagination) accused me of having something going with a married woman in Norman. I didn't get let go because of the "conspiracy." The GM was in his own little rock and roll world, and it didn't fit with his boogie woogie, and that's why I was let go. The strangest event of all, coming on the heels of picking up the phone at the station after Danny was gone and hearing a request for Angie Lewis' "Silent Weeper." I explained the song was too slow and it didn't fit the format at night. I tried to explain it nicely. Someone else got on the phone and said, "What is your name? I'll have your job!" I told her my name and I asked her for hers. She said, "Missy ________." This would be a familiar name to the Chambers camp, who obviously had it in for me because I expressed concern for the children, and wanted the best thing for them. It wasn't about Danny, his ex, or Jill (who I had no clue was in the picture). |
| Anyway, after I entered Danny's number into that pastor's pager (they both went for "88 Reasons Christ Will Return" hmm), he showed at my workplace (a restaurant--and the same one where his ex-wife came to work later) and wouldn't even look at me. The waitress tells me they were rude, and didn't tip. Personal note: Danny, if I had known about Jill, I would not have repeated those things after you, but rather would have made reference to Jill in front of everyone. I esteem God, and you've never seemed like Him to me. I thought you were His servant, but you were serving yourself in '88, hoping you wouldn't get caught, and vowing to get even with those who were in your way. Am I "hurting the cause of Christ?" No, it's impossible to do that, or it would have all been over three years after the ascension. God said, If we don't praise Him, the rocks will cry out. He has made provision for people not being worthy of His name. Danny, God doesn't need any of us. |