Chapter 2. A Divine event!

“What was that?” I heard myself say out loud? I wasn’t in the habit of talking to myself but …what was that? I knew what I had seen but…

I was standing in the dark, in the doorway between the dining room and the kitchen. By reflex, I tried to reproduce what I had just seen. Reaching out, I flipped the nearby light switch on and off several times to no avail. In my heart and my head I knew better, the lights had been out to begin with. Was it a reflection of some kind? No it was dark outside. A kitchen nightlight cast a glow on my back as I looked into the now dark dining room

In the darkness I had been walking along one wall, the length of the dining room, toward the doorway where I was now standing. The soft glow of a small night light in the kitchen had marked the entrance. As I turned right to enter the kitchen, out of the corner of my left eye something got my attention. I quickly turned my head, looking back over my left shoulder toward one end of the dark room. There, in a slightly prolonged moment, I saw… a pillar of fire!

It was only there for a second or so but I saw it clearly. It was about 3 feet in diameter, made up of individual flames, several hundred of them I would guess, each the size of my hand.

The feeling I got was like being in a waiting room full of people, like I had caught someone looking at me over their magazine, looking me in the eye momentarily and turning away quickly.

While brief in duration, the column of fire was floor to ceiling high (10’). It was there and then it disappeared. I didn’t even have time to blink. “I really did see it,” I said to my skeptical, carnal self. Preoccupied but pondering, I came back to my original plan and got something to eat.

The proof to me that I saw it, then and now, is that I can still see it, saved forever on the hard drive of my mind. In time it would become an anchor for my faith, as “God” events do. Back then I had no idea what it was or meant.

The next day, I agreed to go to a location where I knew, I was going to be assassinated!

Interspersed among the more important things written here, are small but hopefully meaningful portions of my testimony. I share these portions so that you will know I have had a significant experience with God. The experience has continued now thirty-two years later, resulting in this book, His book.

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