Can you hear it?: Part 2 of 7

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Lindsay and I would agree all the time that we had lived a very blessed life and we knew where every one of those blessings came from.

At the same time, especially in the last couple of years I would say to Lindsay…

“You know all of this can be taken away in an instance.”, and I would snap my fingers.

She would always reply, “Yes.”

I would say, “You know we will be ok though, right?”

She would always reply, “Yes.”

That is exactly what got us through those 12 days.

God pulled through and I now look at that as just a test of sorts…

like a “Is he ready?”

We never lost faith, we knew we would be taken care of, but we were not just taken care of…

Something better was in store for us. Something better than we could have imagined.

It was Him who knew it was right there and that we would be blessed by Him again…

He knew, we believed.

As I began my journey with Day6, I was so happy. I was closer to home, I had my “dream” job, but most importantly God put exactly the right people I needed in my life. He gave me two of the most God loving people that I have ever met in my life and they just happened to be my boss.

I had been a Christian for years. I grew up in the church, I continued to attend church as an adult, I would pray, I confessed my faith to those around me, I always gave Him the glory, but there was something new that began to happen to me.

In John 3:8, it says “The wind blows wherever it pleases…” and for me, I was standing in the wind.

There was a morning in May, I woke up gasping for air… I had not been dreaming, I was not under the covers, Brody was not jumping on my stomach, I was just gasping for air. So, I rolled over and said to Lindsay the only thing I could think to say and the only way to describe it. I said “I feel like I just died.”, and I still remember it that way.

Things like this began to happen. Feelings, thoughts, emotions… everything a person could experience I was having, but it for some reason kept taking me to a spiritual place and I began to be in the Word more, I could “hear” at Church better than I ever could. I felt like something was changing inside of me.

In the early summer I remember standing in the kitchen with Lindsay and we had a conversation that went something like this…

Gabe: “I want to tell you something, but I don’t want you to think I am being cocky or boastful… it is just a feeling I have.”

Lindsay: “Ok.”

Gabe: “I feel like I am suppose to do something. I am not sure what it is, but I think it is suppose to be of some significance. I am not sure if it is me or I am just part of it. I am not sure if it has something to do with Day6 and success we may have or if it has something to do with the game we are developing. I feel like it is going to be important though. I even feel like I am suppose to tell you and I feel like I am suppose to see if you are prepared. If it is some type of success, are you prepared? I know that is sort of hard to ask with you not knowing and me not knowing what it is, but will you just stand by me?”

Lindsay: “Of course… you don’t have any idea what it could be?”

Gabe: “No, but I feel like it is coming.”

Gabe

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