I’m very tired and ready to hit the sack.  What a day this has been.  The odds would seem to be a million-to-one against this day ever occurring in an individual’s life.  While talking to three of my best friends, each separately and at different times, each friend revealed to me a decision taken recently in his life and each encouraged me to make the same decision.
    Joe, who believes in the supernatural, joined the Secret Society recently and proudly wears an attractive ring symbolizing his order.  He has presented me with an invitation to join, as he knows I’ve recently been looking for the answers to life myself.  Joe told me that as long as I believed in a supernatural God or Gods of my choice, then he could get me in.  I told him I’d sleep on it.
    Shortly after talking to Joe, I ran into Chris.  He told how he had recently become a Christian and joined a local church.  He asked me to read the Gospel of John from the Bible and then consider attending his church with him.  I’m still not sure how simply reading the book of John could convince me to go to church with Chris, but I told him I’d sleep on it.
    Less than one hour later, I ran into Billy.  He said he recently came to the conclusion that all religious preachers are phonies and the supernatural is a myth for primitives.  Billy said he didn’t need a God.  I told him about my conversations with Joe and Chris, after which he laughed and said he knew Secret Society members were supernaturalists and that he would not be able to seriously go through their ritualistic ceremonies and didn’t see how their brotherhood could possibly benefit him in life.  Billy said all the Secret Society members were playing a childish fantasy game that had nothing to do with reality.  He said,  “The need to possess a secret showed that they were still children”.  When Billy was finished talking and told me not to listen to the hot air of Joe or Chris...I told him I’d sleep on it.
    I still can’t believe the odds of all three of these friends offering me three different ways in the same day.  The question is, do I make a decision now and go in the same direction as one of these friends or do I just go on living, as I have up till now, undecided?  Well there’s the Bible which Chris loaned me, over on the nightstand, but I get sleepy whenever I try to read...and he asked me to read “the whole book of John”.  I think I’ll just lie here awhile and think about all of this.............................................................................
    What’s going on?  Here I am walking along a dark street with somebody beside me.  I can’t seem to look at his face.  Ahead of me is a big building with a huge attractive sign hanging above the door which reads:  “THE SECRET SOCIETY”.  We both stopped in front of the door and I realized that I would have to make the decision to enter if I wanted to know what was inside the lodge. Written in smaller print on the door were the words:  “Lowest degree new members, enter here”.  After entering this door with my mysterious guide, the door closed behind me and the dark room began to lighten up, I could see writing in large print on the floor from one wall to the other.  As I walked along the floor, I read the words: