Walk Toward the Light

Yesterday, as I was walking across the bridge at Oyster Creek Park in SugarLand, Texas, I suddenly saw this bright light with several beings of lightwaiting for me at the other end of the bridge.

Yesterday, as I was walking across the bridge at Oyster Creek Park in Sugar Land, Texas, I suddenly saw this bright light with several beings of light waiting for me at the other end of the bridge.

I heard their voices saying, "Miss Bethany, walk toward the light."

"I beg your pardon?" I replied.

"Walk toward the light," the voices repeated.

I stopped dead in my tracks, my breath stuck in my throat as my mind (yes, my mind) darted to the left and then to the right. I was frozen in fear. What is this, the Fort Bend County edition of Poltergeist?

"Wait a minute," I said to myself. "I don't think so."

"Walk toward the light," the voices said again.

"Awww, heck no! I won't go!" I said defiantly, waving my arms toward them in a shooing fashion.

The dominant one stepped forward. I knew he was the dominant one because he had the biggest tattoos and the most painful-appearing body piercings. I briefly wondered if tattoos and body piercings hurt in heaven...

"Miss Bethany," said the dominant one, "you must come with us right now. It is time for your next assignment."

"My next wut?"

"Your next assignment," repeated the dominant light being.

"And just what is this next assignment?" I asked, jamming my toes in between the cracks in the bridge boards. I did not intend to budge.

"Miss Bethany, we are here to take you for special training," said the dominant one.

"Special training?" I asked, rolling my eyes. They were just starting to make me really angry now. "Training for what?"

"It is your mouth, Miss Bethany. You talk too much, and your language is entirely too aggressive. You alienate everyone we send to be your companion. We must give you training before you can go to heaven."

"Now look here, Buzz Lightyear, I'm gonna show you some aggressive language..."

Suddenly, I felt a hand shaking my shoulder.

"Mom? Mom. Mom!"

"Wha... what!"

"Mom, you must have been having a bad dream. You drank an awful lot of wine before you fell asleep."

"...but there were light beings...and I need special training..."

"Light beings?" chuckled Carrie. "Did you watch another movie about alien abductions? I told you to stop doing that because it scares you every time."

So...how do you explain this picture I took with my iPhone? It is real. I swear it is.