Revelations:

I don’t know about you but I love getting revelations from God. They are one of the coolest things that happen to me. Some of the best ones, to me, are the ones that come from something you’ve heard over and over and one day that just hit you like never before. The story you’ve been told a thousand times just sneaks up and blows you away with new angles.

One of my favorites was the day that the parable of the mustard seed hit me. You know people can tell you things a million times but you won’t really get it until the day comes when you fully understand it. I was driving to my parents house one afternoon when the mustard seed parable hit me. I had stopped by the local Christian bookstore and bought a few things. Among my items I had purchased a little gold cross with a seed where the two beams came together. On the cardboard it was attached to was the parable about the mustard seed. The small seed on this cross was a mustard seed. I had never seen one before that day. Well, I did a dangerous thing I read the parable on the card while driving, and I started laughing to myself about how small this seed actually was. (At the time this happened I was struggling in my faith and wasn’t sure if I “had enough faith to count.”)

The parable says that if we but have faith the size of a mustard seed we can move mountains. Even in my lowest state (I told myself) I surely have faith the size of that tiny seed. And that’s when God just started laying it all on me. God spoke to me about that seed and my faith all the way to Dadeville. That was 2 hours of some quality God and Stella time.

When I went to Massachusetts to work at a theatre one summer God hit me with another one. This one was not so much about me and my faith as it was just a veil being removed. While at this theatre I work in the costume shop as a stitcher. Almost every night after work everyone in the shop would go into town to a little bar called The Red Herring. I was not allowed to drink that summer not because of age but because of a commitment I signed as a BCM council member. Nevertheless I would go and hang out with my co-workers.

Well one night after we were done for the day everyone decided to take a nap before going out that night. I went back to my dorm room for some sleep when the urge to read my Bible overtook me. I felt led to read Revelation. (I’ve never before or since felt led to read that book.) I was surprised when I started reading the book, because all that I was reading was making sense like never before. Before when I would try to read Revelation it was just me reading words on a page with no comprehension whatsoever. I was half way thru Revelation when there was a knock on my door. It was one of my co-workers coming to wake me up to go to the Herring. I put down my Bible, got dressed quickly, and walked with Meghan to the bar. On the way there she asks me if I was ok because I had a strange look on my face. I told her about reading Revelation and it making sense and that I was in a state of shock because of the clarity in which I had been reading it. She like I was amazed. We got to the bar and sat down with our co-workers. A few of them asked me if I was ok, and before I could answer Meghan told them what I had told her. Some understood. Others just “looked past it.” After about ten minutes or so I excused myself from the table, telling them that I just had to go back and finish the book. It was the best decision of the summer. God just continued to open up Revelation to me. It was a great night with God!

~Stella