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January-March, 2022

Yielding to the Word of God

by Rev. Robert Thompson, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Once upon a time, an elderly man, (78 years old at the time, to be exact), met a living angel that was walking the face of this earth. Because he was continuously gifted with glimpses of Heaven, there was a tendency for this old guy to prolong that experience. Needless to say, when one’s soul is merged with Such A One, each word, each touch, is a serene embrace with Eternity.

Overwhelmed with awe and gratitude, the man offered to spend the rest of his life with the angel. The angel responded that she had already, for years, made  specific commitments to an organization, which she wished to continue. The man agreed that, when they were eventually together, the angel could continue her long term commitments.

But prior to her relocating and arriving permanently at the man’s home, he had what seemed to be a dream. In the dream he was guided to NOT DO what he had said to the angel that he WOULD DO!    WOW!! Specifically, that he was in no way to support her continued commitment to the organization!

The man woke up with the dream fresh in his mind and turned on the bedroom light. What a dilemma! To keep his word or obey a dream? To give up happiness because of a dream? The man found it difficult to make a choice and tried to make some sort of compromise. While he was trying to find a solution, a very loud voice said, “You have heard my words. Do what you will.”

The voice was so loud that the man looked around the bedroom to see who was speaking. He glanced at the clock. It was 1:30 a.m. in the morning.

Immediately while awake, he received “a vision” of Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Pilate was “washing his hands.” The “vision” seemed to suggest that, if he did not obey the dream, the “Loud Voice” was washing Its Hands of him.

The old man had heard about “the still small Voice.” But in his 25 years of dreamwork presentations and dream interpretations, he had never heard of “a very loud Voice”—to say nothing of Its supporting and emphasizing a dream!

“Do what you will.” The immediate feeling was that disobedience would be catastrophic! A dream?  A loud Voice, while awake? A “washing of hands?”

Then this question just “popped” into my mind. “What decision can I now make that I will be able to peacefully live with for the rest of my life?” Thus there was no choice, other than to obey. Immediately I was at peace.

There was, however, the need to share with my beloved that I would not be spending the rest of my life with her. So I traveled that short distance of acceptance to make a long distance call. Surprisingly, when she answered the phone I violated my own rule, which is, “Never tell people what to do.”

I told her that I had been guided to not support her in continuing her years of commitment and told her not to come and be with me but to stay and continue her dedicated work. I actually said, “Stay where you are and honor your commitment.”

Those were my words to my surprised and somewhat startled angel. She made little response and the call ended.

I lay back in bed peacefully aware that I had given up something that was most important, the love of my life, for something that was even more important — the Peace of God.     

Perhaps an hour or so later, the phone rang and my angel said, “I have gone to the Holy Spirit and asked for guidance. Following my guidance I am transferring all of my previous responsibilities at the non-profit to others and will then pack my car and come to spend the rest of my life with you.”

I said, “Okay.” And with that brief utterance, I committed myself to being her advocate and supporter 1,000% for the rest of our lives.

This included a legal marriage at Pathways of Light, my steadfast role as her confidant and major assistant in her studies for ordination as a minister and acting as her co-author and assistant when she officiated at baptisms, funerals, and marriages.

P.S. And now, so many years later, she is the angel watching over me.

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