Subject: Seeing things? |
Bible Note: Val- sometimes it's best to simply leave these kinds of things alone for more than one obvious reason. To begin with, grief is a very powerful emotion and process that weighs heavy on a person to include his/her mind. Any attempt to talk them out of their "vision" might cause undue conflict. On the other hand, encouraging thinking and behavior that seems to be contradictory to Scripture may lead the person into a wrong direction. There are plenty of mistics running about that will be happy to help your friend to fully develop the vision and even interpret it I'm sure. I happen to live in a part of the country where there are a lot of folks that are not only all too willing to believe nonsense but actually whip into a frenzy when faced with it. Many of these are regular church goers of a particular denominational flavor. Southern New Mexico, this town of Las Cruces where I live, has had more than one Jesus in a tortilla but they tend to favor visions or impressions of the Virgian Mary. An employee at the hospital where I work had "the virgin Mary" in her window and for many days there was a long line of people circulating through her home every evening to see it. One particularly excited coworker who had seen it and couldn't shut up about it asked me if I had gone yet. That was my opportunity to ask her "just exactly what does the Virgin Mary look like?" Believe it or not she started off in a very animated description before I stopped her. I finally explained, briefly, that no one living has ever seen Mary to include there being no photos of her so why, why would so many people be so quick to declare a form, made by condensation in the window, the Virgian Mary? She wasn't even fazed by my unbelief. After all. She had seen it herself. She believed. Hope this helps, Jeff |