I have had many great
spiritual experiences, but the most dramatic one was when I was about 16 years
old.
My brother had been dating a
girl, two counties over from where we lived.
I had been bugging my brother over and over to take me to meet her as their
relationship was getting serious, so finally one Sunday afternoon after church
he gave in to his little sister and we started driving over to meet her. We had been driving for a while when an
audible voice said to me “prepare for an accident”; I looked over at my brother
and said "what did you say?" he responded “I didn't say anything”. I was taken- back by his answer as I just
knew I heard him say that.
As I was
meditating on the situation, the voice came to me a second time and said
“prepare for an accident”; I looked over at my brother and ask him again "what
did you say?" , he replied again he hadn't said anything; at this response I was
getting agitated and I blurted out; "you did to! I heard you!" and he still
insisted he hadn't said anything.
As we were driving along the audible voice
again spoke the same words and this time it was so powerful it felt like a bolt
of lightning going through my body and I bolted in my seat and exclaimed "OK!" he now had my attention as he proceeded to
give me instructions. He told me when he
said “now” I was to hit the floor and put my arms up over my head. In those
days there were no seat belts and I was riding in the front passenger seat known
then as the death seat. We drove a little longer and the road was a rolling country
road when all of a sudden a car coming toward us was driving in the middle of
the road coming straight at us over the top of the hill. The audible voice said in a very powerful
commanding voice “NOW” and I hit the floor putting my arms around my head as
instructed. My brother swerved the car to a hard right making the car go out of
control and as he swerved a hard left to correct it landed in the ditch; as we
continued along the ditch, I kept hearing parts of the car flying apart as I
thought we will be next; then all of a sudden we ran into something and the car
stopped.
The car stopped at a culvert
where a bunch of tumble weeds had gathered against it making a big soft pillow
where the car came to a soft complete stop. I came up off the floor and looked
at my brother to see trickles of blood from his forehead dripping off his nose as
he said “sis , are you alright?; I said I was and was so scared I climbed right
over the top of him through the driver open side and ran upon the highway. A lady was swinging on her porch swing and
saw the whole accident and as I approached her she let out a blood- curdling
scream as if she had seen a ghost, which scared me about as much as the
accident. My brother came up after me
and the lady called the police. The police arrived and asked us if we were hurt
and my brother said no except a little cut on his forehead and I said I had no
injuries at all and was fine; not a scratch on me. The car was completely totaled with not much
left of it.
I have never heard another
voice since like that audible voice, only strong mind impressions of impending
dangers of which I always pay attention to.
I am so thankful to the guiding voice of that day and plan to ask who
that was that helped us when I go to the other side.