Testimony 10

We were in the adoration room for an intercessory session for the retreatants. I have volunteered myself for choir because God has showered me with much blessings and volunteering is one way to give back to the church. The retreat is mainly made up of talks by the bishop, praise and worship sessions and praying over. It is a program planned for individuals who long to have a personal encounter with God. So, midway through the session, a vision appeared: I saw Jessica with knees slightly bent, focusing her gaze on the lower part of a glass shelf and the prompting came that it was about her confession. It was vague and I couldn’t get the point at all. I assumed that she didn’t go for the sacrament of reconciliation before coming for retreat. So I went to ask her about it, but I didn’t tell her about my vision because it was never my habit going around to tell people about what I saw. Jessica answered that she had gone for confession, so maybe I got it wrong.

As she was seated next to me in the choir, we had plenty of chances to chat. Somehow, during one of the breaks, she expressed about her fear of confessing her sins, because she wasn’t sure of what to say. Indeed it is not easy to talk about committed sins, first you need to be humble enough to acknowledge your own sins and then you have to be courageous enough to find a priest to make a confession. What will the priest think of me? Am I confessing enough? Tons of questions will come to mind and fear sinks in. Of course, I am not saying that going for confession is a dark thing to do. I personally had a great experience. When the priest was reciting the absolution, my hands were all heated up, and at the end of the prayer, a blazing radiant white light burst into my view, totally riveted me in awe. Anyway back to Jessica, the moment she talked about her worry of confession, I asked her whether she knew the reason for my earlier question about her going for confession. Of course she had no idea. So I told her that I was prompted with the word confession and that God knew about her situation. The message comforted her. I didn’t reveal to her about the vision, because it made little sense but come to think about it now, I should have released the imagery to her.