John 20: 1-18 (The Resurrection)
The reason this is a wonder-full story to me is because it speaks of my faith. “It is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see.”
I have had an intimate close and personal relationship with God and the Holy Spirit since I was a small child. I cried to God one night in my bed for one prayer to come true. My first answered prayer that solidified my faith in God. It was for my mother to stop drinking. It seemed like the next day she asked my grandmother for help. She took her to the alcohol treatment center and for the next 28 years she did stop drinking. I was in elementary school at the time.
I believe in angels disguised as people in our lives too and had another close encounter with the Holy Spirit when I was in my early twenties when I cared for a man in a nursing home and helped him die with dignity. I couldn’t do it for my own grandmother, but I was able to be with this man, Wolfgang. He appeared in my youngest sister’s dream when he died. I had been with him holding his hand and I was there for his last breath. A wave of peace overcame me and I’ve never experienced anything like it before. I felt as though I was literally going to float up to the ceiling… I called home. It was 9:00am and my sister Leslie had said that he appeared in her dream getting out of his wheelchair and telling her to tell me that he was free! He was surrounded by seagulls which was significant because I often went to the water, Lake Winnebago, to write and to feel my connection with God through the power of my pen.
My relationship and faith has carried me through every trial and tribulation. I have known weeping and I have known joy, but there is nothing more powerful that the power that surpasses all understanding and the miracles that happen that you cannot prove but must be experienced by faith. Just like Jesus appearing to Magdalene I feel as if people have appeared in my life just at the most crucial times as teachers. I have been the answer to others prayers as well. My walk with God and the Holy Spirit is never ending and I feel like it only gets richer and deeper with meaning as I age.
By Kimberly A. Cavanagh (July 9, 2021)
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