Postures of Love
By: Sharon Brandon
Tags: Illumination, Darshak Rana, Spiritual Secrets, Inspirational, Spirituality

Throughout life, I would often see people with physical challenges and I would have an overwhelming inner reaction. I would quickly turn away and feel embarrassed. At the time, I did not know I was being prepared to receive a message that would change me.

I was able to attend the Toronto Fellowship Church in Canada in the late nineties. It would be here that the transforming power of our Divine would allow me a face-to-face encounter and set the stage for a deeper understanding.

Growing up I use to have dreams of falling into the filthy water that was rising around me. I would wake up before the water actually touched me. Through the years the dream would change and at times I would barely skim across the water. In later years I would thrust both my arms into the mountain or hillside so that I would not fall into the mirky grave just beneath me at times a hundreds of feet drop. Throughout this time I could not figure out the meaning of the dream or why it occurred so often.

During one of the services at this church, the Presence of God filled the room. I observed the people and saw many of them taking on odd positions. Some began to bend over, some seemed to have problems with their arms or feet, and they reminded me of the crippled people that I had seen before. After the service, I hurried back to my hotel room. I couldn’t explain my feelings. I wasn’t repulsed by what I saw nor did I have the embarrassing feelings from before and though it felt familiar I knew something was different. I fell asleep or so I thought.

In what I thought was a dream, I was walking through what looked like the Rain Forest. The foliage was dense but easy to pass through. I noticed in the distance a bright light from the sky and began walking towards it. As I went I could see the trees and how the light pierced through this particular section of limbs. In the midst, it looked like a charcoal cross had been burned from the form of a nest. The light was coming from this area and the closer I came the more I could see that water was pouring through it. I was amazed by this sight and continued walking toward it. I felt the light’s warmth and it was as if I was beginning to glide. I looked down and the water — the clearest water I had ever seen in my life was rising. I began dancing as the water came up and over me. I’d never felt so free in my life. As I moved about freely I found myself taking the same positions as those not only from the evening service but also as those that I thought of as physically challenged and crippled. I began to see the faces of these people and I noticed something I had missed before. The look of peace, kindness, contentment, and joy. I had never really looked in their faces before because I had been embarrassed. I was brought up to never stare at people, so I missed their faces — until that moment.

I now know that I experienced a vision. The message that accompanied the vision is that what we may see as crippling, challenging, and such, are really postures of love. God grants a special grace for those who experience things that are different from most. He gives grace to the humble. He is close to the brokenhearted. He is a father to the fatherless and a mother to the motherless. The things we often see as barriers are postures of love. His love is beyond our comprehension. Where we wonder “why”, His thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His ways are higher than our ways — so He prepares the table before us and He goes before us to prepare the way we should take. It is why He knows the ending from the beginning. Some of my most treasured experiences in life happened at my lowest point.

After this experience, I would go on to visit nursing homes and offer my gift of song. The joy in what many see as suffering that I witnessed fills me even today. I will never look at people the same. I have been forever changed. I’m amazed by God’s love for us.