WHERE WERE YOU ON 9/11/2001?
Dear John and all Doves!
I am reading the book “The Harbinger”, as many on this site has already read, and there has been a great deal of discussion on. Reading it has brought back the memories of what happened to me, personally, the evening before that fateful day, and on the day itself. It was a momentous experience personally, and it was a momentous experience nationally, and certainly a momentous experience spiritually!!It was even more intense than the Kennedy assassination, and everyone, who was old enough at that time, remembers where they were and how it affected them. I am going to share my experience here, and then ask if anyone else has a story to tell about what happened in their life on this life-changing day.
I was finally living my dream. All my life, I wanted to live on a mountaintop, with the love of my life, and be self-sufficient, self-employed, working as an artist and making a living doing what I loved most. I had dreamed of growing my own food, tending organic gardens, fishing in the river across the road, learning to hunt and even building my own bow.
My dream for my life here, had come true…I had found the love of my life, I was living on a mountain top in a small town near Durango Colorado, I was peeling logs and making furniture and showing my work in art galleries, playing guitar and writing songs, I was growing my own food, learning to hunt with bow and arrow; and sharing all this with the perfect person!! I had never been so happy and satisfied in a worldly sense. I also had opportunities to share the Lord with the people I worked with and met at various places, and I felt so complete and fulfilled in that regard, also. I am saying all this to help you see how perfect my little world seemed until……
The evening of September 10th, 2001, I was in the upstairs bathroom of the awesome log home that my partner had, so loving, built. All of a sudden, all the doors on the upper floor of the house slammed shut at the same time. There was no breeze or wind blowing that day, so it startled me and I started toward the door to see what had happened.
Before I opened the bathroom door, a huge demon appeared in front of me!!! He was at least 8 feet tall, and looked like a giant bat…all black with black wings and green eyes and black horns on his head. It was a vision, but he seemed totally real and then he spoke, in a loud gravely voice, and said one sentence; “This is your last chance to choose!” Then he just disappeared!!
It took a moment for it to hit me, I was stunned!! I asked myself, what could he mean, choose what?? Yet, it immediately sunk in, that it had to do with choosing Jesus. Although I was totally convinced that I had done that, way back in 1978 when I was born again, and that my happy, and fulfilling life was His will for me, I felt immediately compelled to get down on my knees and rededicate my life to Him! I did not hesitate for one moment longer and got down on my knees and prayed to Jesus and told Him that I do choose Him and that nothing is more important than my relationship with Him. I stayed in prayer for what seemed like hours, and never told anyone what happened until several days later.
I went to bed early that night, and slept better than I have in my whole adult life!!! I fell asleep on my back with my hands folded on my chest and awoke in the very same position the next morning, feeling wonderfully refreshed and peaceful, until…I heard the commotion downstairs in our living room, and was startled because it was only 7am, and wondered what could be happening.
I went down stairs to find my partner, his son, and several workmen watching the TV with stunned looks on their faces. I got there just in time to see the replay of the first tower being hit, and then see the second tower being hit as it was happening!! Of course, I was in shock, as was everyone and felt like something had changed that moment…something had changed forever!!
I ran upstairs and went to my Bible, and asked the Lord to show me what was happening. I opened it and the verse He led me to was Rev.6:3, 4:
“And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see, and there went out another horse that was red, and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.”
Just as I finished reading, the phone rang. It was my little sister, in Oregon, and she knows how into the Bible I am and just asked me point blank, “What is happening?” I told her that the second seal had just opened, and then read her the passage that the Lord has shown me.
A few days later, I was thinking about my experience the night before this all happened, and what was meant by having to choose the Lord, again. And this is what the Lord shared with me. “Patti, you are a big fat grape, and I need you to be poured out wine.” And then I understood…as much as I loved the Lord, I had still chosen my dream for myself, over His dream for me. I was a big fat happy grape living on a mountain top, and He needed me to crushed and broken, again, to become poured out wine for Him.
Back to the valley of the shadow of death, for me…and that is exactly what happened over the next few months. My dream world fell apart, and I ended up going back to places and people I thought I would never go or see again. That’s a long story and will not bore you with that, here.
That was over 10 years ago, but upon reading the book ”The Harbinger” it all came back to me so clearly. I can see, now, what a true experience that was for me personally, and how it relates to each one of us, especially here in America, and on a national level!! The first harbinger, of the “wall” was being breached, and then all the other harbingers relating back to that moment and the first warning.
What happened to me personally was exactly what was happening to the whole of America!!! I was warned to return to God, and do His will for my life…not mine!! And our nation was warned to return to God, or our nation would be destroyed!!! Amazing!!! I really did not get the impact of that until reading this book. Something happened to all of us that day, especially Christians, and maybe we have a story to tell. I thank the Lord each day that I woke up, and although it has been a dark, dangerous, and difficult journey from that mountaintop of worldly happiness, I would not trade it for anything, as my truth home and happiness is in Heaven.The Lord put it on my heart to share this story with you all today. I am so thankful that I heeded His warning, and so very saddened that America did not.
So, I will end this with the question that I started with. Where were you on September 11th 2001? I would really be interested in hearing how this life changing event impacted each one of you, and if your walk with the Lord became deeper and more meaningful, as we were made aware of how short the time is.
May we all be poured out wine for the Lord!!God bless you all!!
Patti C.