Sundown Syndrome

[J.A. Perez]

A timely message ...

" There are other peculiarities with evening time, I had an elderly lady that was in the hospital for a while. And she eventually died. But she lingered for a long time and it seemed like in the evening time, she had no real consciousness of time. First of all she did not know when it was daytime, and did not know when it was nighttime.

And I guess you know when you're laying on hospital bed The day blends with night and it's hard to tell one day from the other. And so she was always confused about what time it was, but as regular as clockwork when evening would begin to come she would start hallucinating, and seeing things that were not really there, and hearing things that were not really there.

I chalked it up to civility and maybe her affliction or ailment but the medical personnel that were there said they had a name, they had a label for that condition. They called it Sundown Syndrome.

There is something about it if you are not healthy and strong, Amen, if you lose your sense of time, there is an affliction that you can begin to see things that aren't there, hear things that are not there. And lose your touch with reality lose your reference with that which is real.

I know a lot of folks that are sitting in pews that have Sundown Syndrome. They're seeing things that are not there and hearing things that are not there. And they've Lost all touch with reality and all touch with time.

You know what happens at night, you see shadows, you see shapes, you run from things that are no threat to you, and you run into things that can harm and can damage you,

If there is ever a need to keep the light of this Glorious Gospel burning bright in our minds and hearts, it is in 1998!

My Bible tells me, if our gospel be hid, It is hid to them that are lost in whom the god of this world, hath blinded their minds, Amen, less the light of this glorious gospel, should shine onto them and they should be saved.

Your only hope to stay in touch with reality to stay in touch with time, to be able to know who your friends are, know who your enemies are, run from the right things, and stay away from the right things.

Amen, is to keep coming to church, and ask God to give you a sense, where you can be in touch with the Spirit of God,and be in touch with the word of God, come to church and ask God to preach to you, through the word of the Lord and though the man of God."

-Elder Jonathan Alvear-