A Visit From Above

True story, but I have no proof of it happening, what-so-ever. I remember this very vividly.

March 9th. It was a Monday before 5:30 a.m. I was lying in bed waiting for the alarm clock to go off. When I opened my eyes, there was this man standing at the end of my bed. He was dressed like a normal person (no, I don’t remember what he was wearing). He looked at me, and even though there appeared to be an intruder in my house, I was very calm and didn’t have any fear. There was no halo over his head, no light emanating from behind him to give him a glow, just a man.

This man looked at me and said, “You will have a boy and you will name him Ezekiel”. Then he touched my alarm clock and I woke up. I looked around the room, but it was pitch black and I couldn’t see anything except the alarm clock. I couldn’t even see the powered-off TV that he was standing in front when he was there. I didn’t think much of it but I did tell my wife that morning. It didn’t really hit me until almost two months to the day, when we found out that we were 6 weeks pregnant, AND a few months after that we found out that we were having a boy.

Then I thought to myself. Was that a dream? Was it me thinking that we were going to have a baby or was it that an angel did in fact come down and tell me we were going to have a boy and we were going to name our boy Ezekiel. When he said “and you will name him Ezekiel”, it didn’t sound like a command, but more of a statement.

This was a very difficult post to write. For the longest time, I have been afraid to let my religious beliefs be known because of the stereotypes that Christians often get in movies and in the press sometimes, but recently I had a...for lack of a better word...vision and the more I tell people (you readers are not the first), the more I realize that I shouldn’t be ashamed at this experience, and instead I should cherish it as special.

This was also a first for me. Although I attend church on a regular basis, I have never in my life experienced an event such as that one. And seven months, later, I still very much believe that I was visited by an angel.