Day 100

Day 100. No coincidence that it is this day I have the most amazing vision/picture from Jesus. No coincidence that day 100 of my spiritual awakening is when God gives me a strong passion for my city.

For those of you who are my Jesus lover friends hopefully this will be an encouragement to you. For those of you who are skeptics, I'm just gonna seem more weird to you but my college educated self is ok with that.

I was driving between jobs heading from Puyallup to Tacoma on 512 when it happened. The song on my CD was saying something like, "Set your heart on the heavenly realm" so I did that. I asked God to show me something beyond this physical world. So He did.

In my mind (if I would have really seen this I would have crashed) I saw an angel who was probably 100 feet tall looking over Tacoma, back and forth, all around. I wasn't sure what that meant so I asked God.

He told me that this angel is specifically assigned to protect Tacoma. My first thought was awesome. My second thought was wait, there are so many crimes going on right now, is he not doing his job?

Then God reminded me of a book I had read a long time ago called Piercing the Darkness. Its all about the fight between angels and demons and how that interweaves with human life. There's a part in the story when a few people are praying together and the angels see it and are released to go and do their job.

Now, deep down, burdening my heart, is a cry for Tacoma. A cry for the desperate, homeless, victims, perpetrators, churches, families, hurting and lonely. A lot of us choose to live in our bubbles called Fircrest, University Place, Gig Harbor, etc. We are not faced with the atrocities committed down the street in east Tacoma, hilltop, down town. Are we as followers of Jesus going to pretend this stuff doesn't happen? Or will we love God AND love people without holding back with either?