An Ancestor of Tomorrow: Testimony
I offer this testament as one who has traversed the thin veil between heaven and earth. I write this as an ancestor of tomorrow, believing that our most vital responsibility is to the generations we will never meet. For too long, our spiritual traditions have suffered from a kind of scriptural stagnation. We have often treated faith as a sealed container, a finished story, rather than a living, breathing encounter. Religion has become like being a fish in a fishbowl, when our souls are made for the vastness of the ocean. Nothing grows in stagnant water. This is why I have chosen to share these visions. Oral storytelling, and the written testimony that flows from it, allows the water of revelation to move continuously from one generation to the next. It leaves room for the Spirit to breathe. To help you on this journey, I want to invite you to see this book not just as a story to be read, but as a meal to be shared. Imagine that you and I are seated at a great table, with God as our host. The visions and revelations contained in these pages are the courses of this sacred meal. I am merely the waiter, presenting to you what I was so graciously given. My role is to serve each course, to describe its nature-both its sweetness and its bitterness-and then to give you the space to savor it for yourself. At the end of each chapter, you will find a section called "A Pause at the Table." This is your moment. It is an invitation to reflect on the course you have just received and connect it to the landscape of your own soul. You will find that the spiritual life is a fluid dance between light and shadow. We will be asked to hold both, to find the mercy in the darkness and the lesson in the light. The "work" we must do is to learn how to blend our Faith with our Trust. Think of them like the ocean: Faith is the water, the vast reality of God's presence. Trust is the salt, the lived, active, sometimes gritty surrender that makes it real for us. One cannot exist without the other. This is the work of healing the parts of us that feel unworthy, of welcoming our own inner child to the table, so that we can see ourselves as God sees us-as His beloved children, always and forever worthy of His love. I encourage you to keep a journal nearby, to engage in this dialogue with God, the text, and your own heart. This is not a story about a man who saw God. It is an invitation to realize that God sees you. May my journey through light and shadow awaken your own voice, inspiring your generation to record and share what you have seen and heard, so the waters may never cease to flow.
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