[Faith_Machine]

Friends, as you know, I have been temporarily caring for Marina, a young Latina with autism, whom my brother Esau for some reason adopted.

Esau, of course, has been laid up with rheumatoid arthritis, and he and his wife, Hephzibah, felt it best I take young Marina off their hands for a few months.

As mentally challenged kids go, Marina is a fairly harmless sort. She is obsessed with wearing huge flowers in her hair, and spends a lot of time staring off into space and "stimming."



However, I have discovered something about this lass which her parents had not suspected:

She is an idiot-savant, with a photographic memory!

Hence I endeavored to have her memorize every single page of Strong's Concordance.

The result is that you can give this girl any word from the Bible --literally any word at all-- and she can recite back to you every single Bible verse in which it appears, along with its definition, original Hebrew and Greek counterparts, etc, etc.

So I got to thinking, were this girl a carnival sideshow attraction, she could be billed as THE HUMAN BIBLE INDEX.

And I further got to thinking, what if we actually put together some kind of traveling road show?

Consider, brothers and sisters, how popular traveling tent revivals used to be, before people got so caught up in their Internet and on-demand television and whatnot.

Imagine a Christian carnival featuring at least ten "human oddities," i.e., sideshow freaks, each of which could impart upon the viewer some important Biblical truth.

I think this could be a splendid way of raising extra money for the church.

Would any of you happen to know any cripples, deformed individuals, or other specimens, living or dead, who might be appropriate for such an enterprise?