Witness to the Light in My Life

On the night of Saturday October 21st, my ten year old daughter Lilly was extremely tired from a very busy day. She had a morning of softball, shopping with mom, and a long birthday party that afternoon. When bedtime drew near she fell asleep very quickly which allowed me some time to read before I got too sleepy.

I picked up my Bible and felt persuaded to start reading John in the gospels. Side note: God can breathe a fresh word through scripture no matter how many times you have read it. God’s word is ALIVE and POWERFUL.

I slowly read John 1-13 expectant to hear from Him. I was craving a word! The passage I read was titled John’s Witness: “The True Light.”

I closed my Bible after those few sentences so that I could ponder what I had just read. I was waiting for a whisper or a revelation.

Simply put, John, was a WITNESS to the Light.

I was still in Lilly’s room, so I turned off her lamp and went to my bed. I still felt like reading a bit which is unusual for me because I’m usually too exhausted to read at bedtime. My husband has had one of my books on his bedside table that a friend/pastor had recommended him to read. It is called “Imagine Heaven” by John Burke, and is a book full of stories of people who have had near death experiences. For whatever reason I grabbed it and hopped into bed.

I had read most of the book but it had been a few years. When I opened it that night, it fell open to where I had last placed a bookmark, Chapter 12,“Light of the World.” It was the same topic as I read in my Bible a few minutes earlier. (not a coincidence).

My heart skipped as 12 is my number and is very symbolic to many things that happen in my life. Also coupled with the fact that the TITLE got my attention being about “THE LIGHT” again and paired with the story of chapter “12” (also not a coincidence).

Within this particular story in chapter 12, a 4 year old little girl named Akiane Kramarik tells her mom that she met and talked to God.

Many of you may know her story already. She is a famous artist who began drawing at the age of four and painting by the age of six. Akiane painted the famous portrait of Jesus called “Prince of Peace” at age 8. She became a prodigy after these encounters.

She claims to have met God and said that God gave her visions of Jesus. She refers to God as LIGHT that is warm and good. She said that God was her parent. Her mom was raised an atheist and their family had never spoke of religion, never gone to church, and didn’t own a television. The little girl claims to have had visits with God, and also that He took her to Heaven. In Heaven she see’s and meets her angel. When she draws a picture of her angel, she doesn’t draw a smile because the paper wasn’t white enough to show how white her teeth were. There is much more to her story but that was enough for me to read.

When I read one specific line, my heart sank to my toes.

In that moment God was affirming me. He and I have had a secret. I too have encountered heaven in this same way but I’ve never spoken of it publicly. God has been encouraging me to write about it for a few years. I’ve tried to get started a zillion times and I always feel that I won’t do justice to such a sacred story. He has shown me sign after sign after sign that I will be writing a book about it. It has been an explosion inside of me just waiting to be released, but I’ve been being ever so cautious that it is the right time.

However, God continues to encourage me.

The divine being that I encountered had the most beautiful teeth that I couldn’t stop noticing. The only person I told after I met him was a friend who was like a spiritual mother to me. She asked me about his eyes and informed me that she knew of other encounters where the angels had mesmerizing eyes. I replied that his eyes were normal, nothing that stood out, but that his teeth were absolutely perfect and I couldn’t stop noticing them.

It’s very hard to explain but when I read that sentence that Akiane wrote about her angel something birthed in my heart. A fire began burning.

The next morning was a Sunday and my daughter and I were volunteering at our new church. It was the first baptism Sunday since the church launched a few weeks ago, and I was SO EXCITED to watch people be resurrected into new life. I was like a kid at Christmas. The church stood together watching this crazy powerful thing happening before our eyes. It was so miraculous and so emotional. I felt like heaven and earth had collided and in the spiritual realm all of heaven was there celebrating with us.

In that very divine moment I looked up and noticed a little white feather falling right above me in slow motion. There were no trees around, no birds around, and the little white feather landed perfectly in my cupped hands.

Papa God is SO GOOD. I can’t even fully comprehend His goodness. It’s too much glory to behold in my humanity. The moment was quiet and surreal but afterwards I wanted to come out of my skin and worship Him.

This is relationship. A daily interaction with our Creator! We pray, He listens. He speaks and we listen. We listen and obey. The Light of Heaven will start invading your life! He will break through our earthly realm to show us THE WAY. Be ready for the best adventure of your life!

If you have made it this far, thank you so very much for taking the time to read! It means so much to me. XO!