Friday Five (on Saturday)

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Since joining the Revgalpals blog ring, and even before, I have enjoyed reading thre Friday five.  I know it is Saturday, but I finally have time to play the Friday five and what better week than Pentecost.  So thanks to the Revgalpals, and especially to Presbyterian Gal for this week’s topic, here is my play on the Gifts of the Spirit Friday Five. (on Saturday)

 

Thinking about all the gifts of the spirit and what Peter said of the “last days”……

 

Have you or anyone you know

 

 

1. …ever experienced a prophesy (vision or dream) that came true?

I once had a dream about the first child I would someday baptize.  Remembering this dream like it was yesterday, I was a pastor in a church “somewhere” and a young couple stood at the font with me and presented their newborn for baptism.  The church was filled with people of various ethnicities, but it seemed like we were the only ones there.  As I received the child into by arms, I looked down and the child was so small it simply filled my cupped hands.  In the dream I didn’t know the family, or the child, but we baptized the child just the same.  A year later while on CPE, I was called to the hospital NNICU where a prematurely born little girl was not going to live.  I sat with her mother, who had no husband and no one at the hospital with her, for what seemed liked days, but was only a few hours.  I asked the mother if she wanted her child baptized and she said yes.  We baptized the little girl, and her mother named her Christian.  A few moments later the child died.  In the dream I suppose the congregation of every ethnicity was the communion of saints, the father standing there at the font with the mother was our heavenly Father, who is with us always.

 

2. …dreamed of a stranger, then actually met them later?

I see people all the time who look so familiar, but I can’t place them.  I have also met people who seem to know me, but I don’t know them.  Those are quite freakish experiences at times.

 

3. …seen a wonder in heaven? (including UFO’s)

I once drove through the end of a rainbow.  I always felt that rainbows would disappear as you approached them, but this one didn’t.  I drove through it with my windows open and the air smelled so pleasant, so different.  The air seemed lighter and for that moment, everything was so peaceful.

 

4. …seen a “sign” on the earth?

A few years ago, when I was president of our congregation and we had no pastor, there was a “blow up” at church.  I remember driving home after one of the meetings praying the corny prayer of asking God for a sign.  When I got home there was even more tension.  Our boys found a young blue jay with new feathers that had obvious injuries.  The vet told them to keep it in a box with a blanket over it to relieve stress and bring it to him in the morning…if it survived.  The next morning as we checked on the bird, we noticed it seemed to be a bit better.  Then the phone rang, it was a person involved in the “blow up” at church.  One of our boys handed me the phone and as I answered it, the boys and Angela were on their way to the car with the bird.  The voice on the phone spoke its first words, and at that instant, the blue jay emerged from the box and took flight.  A sign?  Well you decide.

 

5. …experienced knowledge of another language without ever having studied it?

You could say that’s how I got through Summer Greek in seminary!  Otherwise…no.

 

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