The following is my real life experience. I'd really like to know what this type of experience is called from a christian point of view. I'm a newbie Christian, this event took place 20 years ago.
We were planning to get married, and had brought our wedding forward because my mum was terminally ill. We changed the venue from a garden wedding to a church, not for religious reasons but simply because mum would be able to be wheeled into the church. Mum was a physically beautiful woman and all my life I wanted to look as beautiful as she did on her wedding day, she was mesmerizing.
Tragically, mum passed away 2 weeks before our wedding. I was absolutely and totally devastated but somehow found the strength to complete our wedding plans and be happy on our day.
Our wedding cars and my Dad arrived to take me to the church and as I stood outside ready to pile into the car there was a woman standing on the other side of the road outside her car looking at me. Nothing surprising, I was in a Wedding gown and had two gorgeous Jaguars outside my home. But she started to walk over to me and my father to say something. To be honest I was a little annoyed as I was already late, so Dad said hello to her as I fussed around getting more and more anxious. Then she came to me and said that she just had to tell me that I looked like a lady she used to know when she was 18, 35 years ago. I asked who that was and she replied with my mother's maiden name. Dead silence from both my Dad and me...we were stunned. Dad replied to the lady that the woman she was talking about was my mother and she had recently passed away. It was then the lady's turn to be stunned. She looked really confused and bewildered at this point.
After a little more chatting Dad and the lady realized that they knew each other, they all used to socialize together before they were married. Then she turned to Dad and asked which suburb she was in because she didn't remember how she got here. WHAT??? She didn't know where she was?? We lived in a deadend suburb, it wasnt a thoroughfare to another place, it was a suburb that didn't lead to anywhere but the river at the bottom of the hill. Dad gave her directions to the main road and she was gone as quickly as she appeared.
I've always attributed this to a higher "energy" at play. Do you think this was the work of God? I'm not asking for an affirmation, just your christian opinion. Surely things like this have happened to other Christians. How does the church explain these events?
We were planning to get married, and had brought our wedding forward because my mum was terminally ill. We changed the venue from a garden wedding to a church, not for religious reasons but simply because mum would be able to be wheeled into the church. Mum was a physically beautiful woman and all my life I wanted to look as beautiful as she did on her wedding day, she was mesmerizing.
Tragically, mum passed away 2 weeks before our wedding. I was absolutely and totally devastated but somehow found the strength to complete our wedding plans and be happy on our day.
Our wedding cars and my Dad arrived to take me to the church and as I stood outside ready to pile into the car there was a woman standing on the other side of the road outside her car looking at me. Nothing surprising, I was in a Wedding gown and had two gorgeous Jaguars outside my home. But she started to walk over to me and my father to say something. To be honest I was a little annoyed as I was already late, so Dad said hello to her as I fussed around getting more and more anxious. Then she came to me and said that she just had to tell me that I looked like a lady she used to know when she was 18, 35 years ago. I asked who that was and she replied with my mother's maiden name. Dead silence from both my Dad and me...we were stunned. Dad replied to the lady that the woman she was talking about was my mother and she had recently passed away. It was then the lady's turn to be stunned. She looked really confused and bewildered at this point.
After a little more chatting Dad and the lady realized that they knew each other, they all used to socialize together before they were married. Then she turned to Dad and asked which suburb she was in because she didn't remember how she got here. WHAT??? She didn't know where she was?? We lived in a deadend suburb, it wasnt a thoroughfare to another place, it was a suburb that didn't lead to anywhere but the river at the bottom of the hill. Dad gave her directions to the main road and she was gone as quickly as she appeared.
I've always attributed this to a higher "energy" at play. Do you think this was the work of God? I'm not asking for an affirmation, just your christian opinion. Surely things like this have happened to other Christians. How does the church explain these events?
