I am not the only one with a story…

That is exactly how I felt in December when I posted “You Tell Me…”

That was the first time I realized God had you in mind all along.

A few weeks would pass and then it happened… 4 days that changed everything…

While visiting family, I woke from a nap on a Saturday afternoon. I woke up with the words “breath awakening” in my head. I had no reference for this and I immediately associated it to Lindsay shutting her eyes here on Earth and opening her eyes and taking her first breath in Heaven… this was not the case.

The following day, at home, while feeding the boys dinner I began to sing with Brody… teaching him words to a song I had not heard before. The cadence and relatively accurate lyrics over and over… “Shine your light on me so brightly…”.

Later that night after the boys were asleep in bed, standing in the middle of my living room I began to pray out loud, after all, it is just me in the house. I began to say “Lord, lift me up, I want to be near you, I want to be close to you…”, over and over again.

The next morning I woke up to three words that could only be described as coming as a whisper. I have never experienced something like this, but the way the wind had been blowing, I was not scared. The three words were “She is time.” I immediately text Lindsey to tell her about it and neither of us had any reference. I went to the office and began asking co-workers if they had any idea of what it could be… all I got was nope and a look of “you are crazy.” I went on with the day and did not think anything of it, even when I shut my eyes that night.

The next morning, now Tuesday, again I woke up to four words… “Bring people to her.” Again with the female reference. Some people had called the blog (Part of the Miracle) a ministry and I knew the ministry can sometimes be referred to as a female. Again, I text Lindsey and neither of us had any reference. My thought kept going to Part of the Miracle though.

I loaded the kids in the car to go to daycare, and to make my morning drive to work. Lindsey has given me a couple cd’s and has made me a couple as well. This morning, one of the cd’s she made was left on repeat from the day before. The first song was on repeat. I did not know the name of the artist for sure and I had not been paying attention to the lyrics… I can listen to a song a hundred times before listening to the lyrics… this time I did. There was a reason though… the song was the exact cadence to the song I was singing on Sunday with Brody. I pulled up an app on my phone to pull the lyrics and find out the song… it is “(SMS) Shine” by David Crowder Band.

As I began to read the lyrics, something was being revealed and I got goosebumps all over my body, followed by excitement…

Send me a sign
A hint, a whisper
Throw me a line
‘Cause I am listening
Come break the quiet
Breathe your awakening
Bring me to life
‘Cause I am fading

(surround me)
The rush of angels’ wings

Shine your light so I can see you
Pull me up I need to be near you
Hold me I need to feel love
Can you overcome this heart that’s overcome

You sent a sign
A hint, a whisper
Human divine
Heaven is listening
Death laid love quiet
Yet in the night a stirring

(all around )
The rush of angels

Shine your light so I can see you
Pull me up I need to be near you
Hold me I need to feel love
Can you overcome this heart that’s overcome

Oh the wonder of
The greatest love
Come for us
Oh the wonder of
The greatest love
Has come

Shine your light so all can see it
Lift it up cause the whole world needs it
Love’s come down what joy to hear it
He has overcome
He has overcome

I immediately called Lindsey and told her I thought I knew what the whispers were about. I believed it was time to start bringing people to Part of the Miracle. However, my first thought of PR was incorrect…

The following week, racking my brain trying to think of ways to bring more people to the site because I did not feel comfortable asking people to spread the word, I just kept praying.

Just a week or so later, I wrote “What if.” Many more people came to the site, so I thought that was it, but it wasn’t…

The Sunday after I wrote that post, Lindsey says to me, she feels she needs to tell her side on the site. My first reaction was hesitant, but then I humbled myself and said a prayer, then it clicked… that’s it… Just as I felt in December, it wasn’t about bringing more people to read what I was writing, but it was about bringing people to tell their stories, to share, to encourage, and to be encouraged by the love of Christ.

I knew what to do, but… what was I to do?

Gabe