"Something you need to know before I go on", says Aaron. "Years before, in 1976, when I was twenty, I had just returned from six months in Toronto where I had gone with my lover Keith. Later, there is quite a story there but we don't want to get sidetracked. I had ended the relationship because I wanted to faithfully follow Jesus, and there simply wasn't room in my life for Jesus and Keith. Unless I was prepared to share my life in Jesus, not only with Keith, but with many many others, and with the proviso that I wouldn't be sleeping with any of them. But here I digress. It was March, very early spring and I was taking a long walk in Richmond. I somehow found myself on Ferndale Road, and I was in a state of deep and concentrated prayer.
"Suddenly, I was so overwhelmed by a sense of God's presence that there, on the side of the road, I sank to my knees, right in front of that same house. I had a vision of a crystal prism and the light was shining through it and it was dazzling, and I heard God speak in my heart that that was a vision of the kind of life to which he was calling me. And now, almost twelve years later, here I was, settling in for my first night in that same house..."
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