The event of Paul’s life that is best known is, without a doubt, the Conversion story found in chapter 9 of the Book of Acts. This story is so critical to the book of Acts that it will be repeated twice more: with Paul telling it to a Roman office in Jerusalem in Chapter 22, and near the finale of Acts when Paul tells it to the Jewish King, Agrippa the Second, in Chapter 26. In the “as it happened” form we just heard, Paul called Saul is blinded by a light from heaven on his way to Damascus, He hears a voice: “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? Saul asks, “Who are you, Lord?” and the reply comes “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But get up and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.” Note that Saul not only loses his sight, but chooses not to even eat or drink as he waits to be told what to do. Meanwhile, the disciple Ananias receives a vision from the Lord, with instruction to go restore Saul’s sight. ...