My Encounter

One summer my parents took us to visit my grandparents farm for vacation. (I was only 5 yrs old) They lived down south in a rural area, down a long red clay dirt road. And my aunt lived at the top of the hill on that property with her family.

Then one evening she let her pastor have a Wednesday night service in her home with singing, preaching, communion, and a foot washing. The next day my cousin and I each caught us a frog at their pond. We also was picking some flowers from grandma's garden and went to play at the edge of the drive in the dirt. Well at some point my frog got away so I chased him down and around the curve where a huge shade tree stretched over the road at the front of grandma's farm.

I saw a pair of giant feet, I stopped and was stunned as I started looking up. The most beautiful and perfect looking person i had ever seen. He was an angel as tall as that tree! He had one hand at his waist pointing to the left and his other bent pointing at the sky. He simply said...."The 1990's will tell the tale." Stunned, I said nothing, I turned and ran to tell my mom what i had seen.

She didn't believe me and I was punished for mocking the church service from the night before. So I thought it had been a dream or my imagination. Twenty years had past and i was grown and in church. I had never forgotten that encounter with the angel. One Sunday it was on my heart so i stood up and shared that dream in service asked what it could have meant. My mother stood-up and told the church that it wasn't a dream and how i had excitedly shared my encounter with her and how she reacted to it by punishing me to try to teach me respect for our faith. She broke into tears and asked me to forgive her, which I did. The Church came alive and services continued for a week in revival. I thank God for the privilege of that encounter. Amen