Joe-Joe Sees His Uncle

Joe-Joe went out to find Fan Blade. There was no sign of him anywhere. He searched from sun up to sun down. Joe-Joe searched for two whole days. Fan Blade was not seen anymore. Joe-Joe's father knew that he was sad because he could not find him. He left a picture album book on the kitchen table hoping Joe-Joe would pick it up. When Joe-Joe went into the kitchen to find food, he removed the heavy picture album book and dropped some loose pictures that slid from between the pages. There was a picture of a man that looked just like Fan Blade. He read his real name from the back of the picture. It read, "Uncle Terry." Joe-Joe put the picture back into the picture album book and laid the book in the living room chair. Then he went into the kitchen to eat.

Joe-Joe decided he would go down to the cemetery where most of the older generation of his family laid to rest. He found his uncle's grave. Then he felt a light hand upon his shoulder. When he turned to look behind him, there was no one there. When he turned to look at his uncle's grave, he heard his spirited talking to him. His uncle's spirited sounded like the voice of Fan Blade.

The spirit of Fan Blade said, "Joe-Joe, keep reading your Bible. Learn about the holy ghost and Christ. He's in your hands when you move. He's in you. Never think that you do things on your own. He's in you when you lay down, and he's in you when you get up. He helps you to fight when it is necessary and win battles. It is the Christ that wakes you up, and he's the reason why we have success in life. Always remember him and never forget him no matter what."

(John 15:5) I am the vine, you are the branches: He that stays in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

Joe-Joe Speaks of the Unseen to His Parents

Joe-Joe decided to tell his parents about Fan Blade. Joe-Joe did not know that Fan Blade was a man that died after he was born and kin to him. When Joe-Joe told his parents, they did not recognize Fan Blade by his name. They recognized Fan Blade by the way that Joe-Joe described him.

"You did not see that man," said Joe-Joe's mother.

His father joined in and said, "That man died after you were born."

Joe-Joe said, "I did see him, and his name is Fan Blade."

Joe-Joe's parents were worried and so was Joe-Joe. Joe-Joe was worried because he thought his parents did not believe him. However, it wasn't that his parents did not believe him, but it was impossible to them that Joe-Joe had seen a man that was dead.

Joe-Joe's father said, "What is his name again?"

"His name is Fan Blade."

"What is his real name?"

When Joe-Joe's father asked him his real name. Joe-Joe could not answer. All he knew was his name was Fan Blade. Then Joe-Joe's father told him to find out what Fan Blade's real name was.

Joe-Joe Overcomes His Nightmares

Fan Blade taught Joe-Joe to say his prayers and told him to anoint his head every night with oil. He knew that he was the type of child that would always have to say his prayers. Joe-Joe had enemies as he grew, but his nightmares got weaker. He overcame his nightmares, but his enemies kept him on his knees in prayer. Joe Joe knew how to fight physically, and he was learning to fight spiritually. There are many that do not believe that there is something spiritual out there. However, Joe-Joe did, and it was a blessing for him to see. He had angels all around him, and one of them was Fan Blade. Joe-Joe did not know that he was seeing an invisible man.

Joe-Joe's Victory

Joe-Joe was very lucky that he had an understanding principle. His principle knew that Joe-Joe was not a troublemaker. So Joe-Joe was not suspended from school. However, he did warn the troublemakers, and he felt that they got what they deserved when Joe-Joe fought back.

When Joe-Joe got home from school, he told his parents and bragged about Fan Blade for teaching him how to fight. When his parents found out that Joe-Joe was fighting in school, it caused argument between his them. His father thought that he shouldn't fight back, and his mother thought that he should. Joe-Joe obeyed his mother and ignored his father. He thought he had a crazy father on the subject of fighting.

Now that Joe-Joe had victory in fighting, he was still defeated in his dreams. Fan Blade knew that Joe-Joe needed to be taught how not to fear evil. Fear was put in the minds of children when they were bad. That is why Joe-Joe saw terrifying creatures in his nightmares. His nightmares were becoming serious and real. 

Fan Blade Meets Joe-Joe

Fan Blade had a nephew named Joe-Joe. He was only five. Joe-Joe was born a special child that could see things. He would wake up frightened from having nightmares. There was something in his sleep that disturbed him, and Fan Blade knew what it was all about. There was evil in Joe-Joe’s nightmares. It was the same evil and dreams that Fan Blade had when he was alive. Joe-Joe would wake up and face another burden. He was being bullied by other kindergarteners in school. Joe-Joe dreaded going to school and riding the bus. The teachers were not even on his side. Joe-Joe had a hard way to go.

One day Joe-Joe was standing outside on the playground alone. Fan Blade appeared to him and said, “I know you got beat up. You must learn to fight and be as tough as everybody else. The only way you are going to make them leave you alone is to fight back.”

Joe-Joe said, “But, I do not know how to fight them. They are too big and too strong.”

Fan Blade said with a smirk, “You can be strong too, and I know you have it in you to fight. Remember, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Do you see that giant tree over there in the woods? The wind pushed it, and it fell hard. It’s the same thing with human beings. Do not fear.”

Joe-Joe hung his head. “But, I might loose.”

“If you loose, it will not be because you did not fight.”

As time went on, Fan Blade taught Joe-Joe how to fight. After that, Joe-Joe was sitting in the principles office.

Seeking Family

Fan Blade wanted to start with his family. He wanted to make sure that they were saved. Fan Blade knew that it would have been too much for some of his family to see him back from the dead. They did not understand spiritual and did not study the good book in order to understand. Fan Blade had some family that would not listen and were hard headed. Some of his family grieved over him and visited his grave often. Fan Blade thought, "If they only knew how much I am alive."

Fan Blade saw how much some of the world did not believe that the dead could still see and hear. People in hell know that they are burning and people in heaven know that they are not suffering. They do have a conscious according to the parable about the poor man Lazarus and the rich man in the good book (Luke 16:19-31). To some, the parable is just an old fable, but the characters were real and so was the story. Fan Blade did not know how true it was until he passed away himself. Fan Blade saw folks believing all kinds of things about death. He saw ministers preaching different things about death that did not know what death was like. Fan Blade also saw how dead some of the people on earth walking around living were because they were living in darkness.

Sadly, Fan Blade watched his family. He had family on earth that he knew nothing about. He found one person in his family that he could reach. That person was just a little child. The child was a nephew to him, and he knew the child would listen.

Fan Blade of Truth

Sometimes the truth can hurt. It seems like nobody wants the real truth. Fan Blade was all about truth, and it was sharp as his blade. It could cut very deeply, and he could make many enemies. People like to go on believing lies, and they like to believe that they are safe in that lie. Fan Blade had a master above him from heaven saying, “Leave them alone.”

There were days when Fan Blade wanted to prove to the people that they were wrong and being deceived in life, but he knew that it was best to obey his master. He did not understand why people did not believe the truth after seeing it written in the good book. Fan Blade found out that there were many Christians in church that were not Christians at all. He saw many preachers holding back most of the truth because they did not want to loose the members of the church. However, Fan Blade believed that those preachers were no help to God in gaining souls thinking of their precious church and not the church of God. Some of the souls were not getting into heaven.

Fan Blade had to be told and led where to help people. He had to be led where and how to teach people. Fan Blade could not help everyone because there was no hope for some of the people.  

The Spirit_The Man

As Fan Blade traveled the world, he saw many people that did not believe in God. When he was alive as man, there were times when he wasn’t so sure God existed. He thought, “Why wasn’t I sure? Who holds the land back from the sea? Man doesn’t. When I slept at night, I knew nothing. Who woke me up? I didn’t. Who holds the moon, stars, and sun up in the sky? Man doesn’t. Now that I am a spirit, I know everything. I know that there is a God. He’s the one that has allowed me to visit the earth again as a messenger. Without him, nothing can be done.”

Fan Blade suddenly saw a thief robbing a man in China town. The man that was being robbed was an atheist. Only the atheist saw Fan Blade appear out of nowhere. The thief took the atheist’s wallet, and he began to run. Fan blade tripped the thief and caused him to fall. The thief saw Fan Blade as a man while the atheist saw him as a spirit. Fan Blade and the thief began to fight. The thief was not quite as strong as Fan Blade, but he was very strong. He was determined to win the fight against Fan Blade. Fan Blade did not use any of his special powers to defeat the thief. He wanted to fight him as a man. The thief and Fan Blade fought for about an hour. People stood around to watch.

Soon, the thief was getting tired and stopped to look at Fan Blade. He felt Fan Blade as spirit and felt a spirit within himself. The thief felt that he should be a martial art student and that he should go to college to make something of himself. He was tired of fighting and robbing in the streets.

Fan Blade stopped and looked at the thief. Although he was spirit, he understood man because he use to be in a physical body. Fan Blade knew the streets, and he knew what the thief was all about.

The thief saw the atheist picking up his wallet. The thief walked off and left Fan Blade and the wallet. Fan Blade then disappeared in front of the crowd and the atheist. The atheist saw him disappear and only part of the crowd. That made the atheist believe even more in what his eyes were seeing. He thought, “Maybe there is a God sending an angel to come down to protect me.”

The Miracles of Fan Blade

Fan Blade went to the harvesting countryside of China. He saw many men working in the fields. They were thirsty and hot. Some of them could hardly work because of the heat. There was one old man that passed out from a heat stroke. Fan Blade stood among the men in disguise to see what was happening. When he passed by the old man, so did his shadow, and the old man stood up slowly recovering from his stroke. There were two men that tried to help the old man. They took him out of the field and took him home. No one knew that the old man was healed because of Fan Blade's shadow. Fan Blade kept it a secret.

Suddenly, there was another man yelling at another. He was yelling at a lier. He was yelling because the lier always made his life difficult by spreading rumors and gossip. The man never said anything to anyone and always went on about his business ignoring the whispers and staring eyes. However, that day, he exploded. The angry man exploded because his lies made it difficult for him to work in the field with others. Even the man that was paying him turned against him because of false rumors. The liar stole kindness from the angry man. It caused the owner of the field to cheat the angry man in his pay. People were doing a kind man wrong and caused him to build up anger. He went off to sit down holding his heart because he felt that he was about to have a heart attack.

Soon, Fan Blade began to speak. He said, "It is a sin to bear false witness against thy neighbor. It is the ninth commandment of the Bible. Liar, you have stolen a lot from that man and have made his life difficult. You're lies are killing him. Thy shalt not steal and thy shalt not kill are also of the Ten Commandments. Repent of your sins. You think it is hot now, and you think this earth is hell. Let me tell you something. You can go sit in the shade and drink a cup of cold water, but in hell, there is an everlasting fire and no cold water. The rest of you ought to beware of lies. If this man is leading you to believe him, if he is on his way to hell, you just might go with him."

When Fan Blade was through lecturing, the liar began to feel faint and nervous. He walked away from the field and everybody was looking down on him. The liar felt sick. Fan Blade took away what was troubling the angry man. Fan Blade's words were soothing to the angry man, but were sharp as the blade in his hand to the lier. Two miracles came from Fan Blade that day.

Talents and Tools

Fan Blade is a man that nobody recognizes. He is from the spiritual realm world. Fan Blade was allowed to go out and visit people on earth. He had special talents and tools. Fan Blade believed in signs and symbols to help people understand the truth about life. He was a man that fought and studied martial arts before he left the world. Fan Blade had his own philosophy. When he left the world, he saw things differently than he did when he was alive on earth. He knew about things that would be hard for the world to receive.

Fan Blade’s first tool was a fan that was sharp as a blade. He used it to trim a young woman’s trees, and to fan away the heat for workers working in the sun. Another tool that he had was a great ball of wisdom and knowledge of man. Fan Blade could spin the ball like a globe and see good and evil in man’s wisdom and knowledge. He knew his wisdom and knowledge was good, and greater than man’s wisdom and knowledge, and from above. Fan Blade understood man. He was sent to help special people. Everything Fan Blade touched and had, he was able to make something out of it. He put it all to use as tools. Fan Blade had great talents.

Fan Blade Visit

People say that the dead does not know what the living is doing. I disagree. Some people think it is evil to see someone back from the dead. Is every spirit evil? If you see someone dead in your past with a message, and if that message comes to pass, that dead one may not be of the dead. That dead soul might be of the living and resurrected. That dead soul might be used as a messenger. Who can say what is really going on in heaven? The soul never dies, and we shall see when we are dead. We shall know what is truly going on if we make it to heaven.

I know a man that nobody sees. He is an invisible man and does not appear to everyone. I call him Fan Blade. He had great compassion on a young woman who was too tired and sick to trim her trees in her back yard on a hot summer day. Fan Blade stood fanning from a distance hiding in the shadows of the trees. He had two fans. There was one in his right hand and one in his left. Both of his hands were inserted into the fans. The fan blades were like a musical instrument. Every time he used the blades, you could hear a musical sound in the wind. The fan blades sounded like the strings of a harp. The blades were very sharp and could cut great limbs of a tree.

One day the young woman drove into her yard and found that all of her trees were trimmed. She thought one of her neighbors trimmed them, but she knew that they would have never trimmed her trees. The young woman was thankful and went into her house from the sun. She sat on her back porch that was closed in like a room. The young woman was able to see the scenery through her open door and windows. She just happened to look up and saw a strange man standing to her door. It was Fan Blade. He had one fan in front of him and another one behind his back. The air was very warm, but for some reason, it felt cooler at the moment she saw Fan Blade.

Fan Blade knew everything about the young woman. He told her, “Never let go of your mind. Never let go of your faith. Your dreams are coming true.” Then Fan Blade vanished from the young woman’s sight.

When the young woman heard the words of Fan Blade, she began to feel a lot stronger. She felt like doing a million things. The young woman was tired spiritually and mentally. That made her feel weak, tired, and sick physically. For you see, there was really nothing wrong with the woman. She just needed an uplift from heavy burdens, and Fan Blade knew. He had been sent to her. The young woman did not recognize the man until she began reading a book on philosophy that had been written years ago. She recognized Fan Blade's voice and the message that he sent was very new.

Introduction

Fan Blade is a Bruce Lee inspiration story of mine. I loved watching his movies growing up, and I am left wondering what his unfinished movies he had in mind would have been like. Bruce wanted to make a movie titled Dragon of Jade. That is how I came up with the idea of Fan Blade.

Bruce Lee became a myth after he died. I know deep down, Bruce is more than myth. His Kung Fu was real. Bruce put his Kung Fu into acting, but it was also used in reality. He taught his Kung Fu to others. Bruce Lee is a myth to some people. To others, he may not be a myth. Some people knew the real Bruce Lee as a teacher, and there are many of us that only knew him as the actor. I don't know what the debate is all about. I enjoyed all that Bruce Lee did, I enjoyed what he was, and I enjoy what he is. Bruce is now a legendary man of martial arts.

In memory of Bruce, I am writing my fiction story.