Imagination
or Vision
Not long after I arrived at my present
understanding of the spoken word I found myself explaining to God
that I was having trouble distinguishing His visions from
imaginations. He looked upon me and said I'm sure you can think of a
way to make them different so you can tell them apart. I have taught
you well and you are creative. Ponder it for a while and I'm sure you
can solve the problem. Well I was pleased in His confidence in me
and I left pondering just as He suggested. So for the next few day I
received ideas from both spiritual sources. Now there
proposals to mark or identify the visions took many forms.
For example;
I could see the visions with a blue
tint to mark them.
I could have a twitch of my left little
finger.
I could have a ringing noise in one of
my ears..
Well you get the idea Since nothing is
impossible to speak, then nothing is impossible to do. Well I chose
the proposal to have the visions become so real it would replace my
normal senses... Yep that should do it.... no more possible
confusion about that any more. Imagination is never that strong. So
now all that was left was to make that a reality and I knew how. Even
as I write this account this day I still hear laughter from God's direction.... humm. The next morning I awoke early full of
conviction and enthusiasm to solve my problem. I began to speak “that
my visions arrive and replace my sight hearing and all my senses
making it just as real as if I were there.” over and over I made
that WILL day after day a couple of hours each morning. This went on
for about 4 months. One day I was helping my neighbor in his
business, it was laying new sewer lines in newly built houses in
local developments around Denver Co. He had all the equipment and I
was just doing the leg work of fetching the tiles and placing them
into the trench he had dug with the Backhoe. I was returning back to
the flatbed truck for another tile when my vision began to shrink
from the outside periphery inward toward the center. After about 5
seconds I just had a pin hole to look through and another scene
replaced my sight totally. I was walking down the sidewalk in my
vision ...it was about 5 blocks from my house and there was a slight
raise in the sidewalk and I leaned forward in the reality I now was
in to keep walking and of course I fell over in the reality my body
was standing in. Ooops I didn't think of this little problem and of
course Lou Who was running the Backhoe stopped the tractor and ran
over to me to see if I was ok. He was asking me if I was ok over and
over when my hearing came back to the reality my body was in I said
yes Lou I'm Ok, just give me a moment. In the next few seconds my
sight returned back to the reality that my body was in. It returned
in reverse of the way it left starting with a pin hole and then
filling out completely to the reality my body is in. Lou came back
from the truck with some water and gave it to me and said well lets
call it a day we can leave early today. I felt fine, just busy
processing what I had just lived through. Many time the reality is
different from what we per-conceived it to be when speaking the
words. Well needless to say I had to make some adjustments due to
this new reality event. I had a few seconds when the visions start
and my sight in this reality my body is standing in gets replaced
with what ever is happening in the vision. I also learned I could
not be standing upright because if I walked up or down hill in the
vision I would lean accordingly for the vision and fall over in the
reality my body was standing in. Obviously I needed to set down
quickly and get ready to be transplanted into a new reality … the
reality of the vision. Stay suspended in the vision until it is
completed, usually less than a couple of minutes, and then get all
my senses back and continue on my way to what ever I was doing before
the vision was received. Well in the up coming weeks I got rather
good at living the event and looking reasonably normal. I would set
quietly where ever I could and wait for the vision to complete and
stand up and walk off normally as though I had just stopped to rest
for a few minutes. I must say it put and end to any further
confusion as to whether it was a vision or imagination. Oh and yes
the thought that this might be a clear case of over kill did enter my
mind ! Looking back upon it I'm sure God was amused by my choice of
solutions or better said changing one minor problem for a new minor
problem. But it did identify the visions beyond any further
confusion.
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