Day 5

 

1/5/2026

"It has been well said, 'Every great person has first

learned how to obey, whom to obey,

and when to obey.'"

"The evidence of knowing God is obeying God."

Daily Walk  

 

Sometimes, when life gets extremely heavy, I turn on the old television series, Highway to Heaven with Michael Landon, who had a masterful sense of morality and living a decent, clean, respectful life, showing kindness and God's love to all people. In this show he plays an angel on assignment along with his human friend played by Victor French. When the noise in my head from my last head injury hinders my sleep, I stream the show, volume low enough to barely distinguish the words, and I drift asleep. I don't have to worry about hearing anything indecent or profane in these shows. It's extremely important what we watch or listen to, as television and online streaming is extremely satanic and evil. When we fall asleep at night in front of the television, that open door can infiltrate your home with wrongful influence and evil. I have personally witnessed this truth. We must guard ourselves and our children especially.

The story about Wally the Waver is about a homeless man, Wally, who stands by the road and waves at drivers and passersby. He was friendly, respectful, and extremely kind and warm. Everyone in the city and park knew Wally. He had an imaginary friend, Charlie, who "sat beside Wally" on the park bench as he read the newspaper. The mayor of the city was particularly harsh and non-caring, especially towards the homeless or disadvantaged, and he was a lookalike of Wally. Wally told Jonathan (Michael Landon's character) that if he could talk to the mayor, he's say "Be nice." So Jonathan, working on assignment by God, switched them, and the mayor became the homeless man, and he got a taste of how it truly is to live on the streets, having no where to sleep and short lines at the soup kitchen with not enough food to feed them all. Wally was a little simple, but his words were honest and true. Let's just say, the story worked out well, the mayor was transformed and his marriage rekindled, and Wally, who was dying, passed on to meet God, with the mayor honoring his memory.

Another story was about an orphan named Alex who had been abandoned by his parents, so Alex was left in the State's control and shuffled from one foster home to another. In the story he had been living in a very nice foster home with a lady who genuinely loved the children who were not able to be adopted, because of age. People want to adopt babies, not older children, so children over the age of three are tossed aside...again. Alex was a pretty sad and rejected young boy, probably ten years old, and he had grown very quiet and alone, isolating himself, rejection too deep. In walks Angel Jonathan and Mark, his sidekick, who are "on assignment" at a dog kennel/boarding house, run by a kindhearted and compassionate lady who is a foster parent to dogs no one wants, often boarding them and not returning to pick them up. Each week the dogs were taken to visit the children at this foster home, and one dog, who had wandered away from his home and was found by Jonathan and brought to the kennel, became attached to Alex. I guess the dog was "on assignment" as well. The dog's owners looked for the dog, named Jake, until one day they located him. In the end it turned out very well, as Alex was adopted by this family who wanted a son, and their little daughter, had grown to love Alex as a friend. Another happy ending for a youngster without hope, without love, without a family. 

Michael Landon wrote about kindness being shown to people in all walks of life. I've written about his life and stories before, but his lessons are very clear and uplifting, and they bear truths so simple for the complex world we live in. If people would pay heed to words of life, rather than feeding themselves with garbage, thereby protecting their vulnerable little ones who also hear what they hear and see what they see, and it affects them deeply, what a difference it would make in this chaotic society in which we live today. Again, I know the power of such things and the affects. 

In closing, something to consider: 

"Oh, for the attitude of a five-year-old! That simple uncluttered passion for living that can't wait for tomorrow. A philosophy of life that reads, 'Play hard, laugh hard, and leave the worries to your father.' A bottomless well of optimism flooded by a perpetual spring of faith. It is any wonder Jesus said we must have the heart of a child before we can enter the kingdom of heaven?" (And the Angels Were Silent by Max Lucado)

"[Jesus} said, 'I tell you the truth, unless  you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.'" Matthew 18:3