Last night while walking into the kitchen I noticed something brown on the floor. At first, I was kinda just going to walk past it or perhaps get a paper towel to clean whatever it was up. Upon closer inspection though, I noticed that it was a slug. I ended up getting a paper towel to pick him up and then put him outside.
Then the next day, right before cracking open my Calvin and Hobbes book, I sneezed. I opened up the book and the first comic I read has the line in it, “What’s the difference between a garden slug and a two-inch long living booger?”. What are the odds of those things all lining up like that?
I have probably only seen a slug inside my home a few times in my entire life. I really have never seen that many in general regardless. And I hardly ever sneeze unless I have a cold or something. So that was also pretty rare. Then that was the exact comic I was on in my pretty much daily reading of a few comic strips.
Being in my situation, I couldn’t help but wonder if someone placed the slug there on purpose knowing what comic I was going to read. But, I would still have to notice the slug and pick it up. Then the fact that I sneezed before just added all the more into the fated encounter.
Definitely felt like another moment the Holy Spirit was letting me know that he is real and that a plan is happening. That Heaven is real. Also a sign that everything is happening as it should and that everything happens for a reason. I’m sure it could imply a lot of things in all reality. But, just letting me know that it’s all real felt like the biggest point of this encounter.
It always seems to come in moments like these, my encounters with the Holy Spirit. Enough to strengthen my beliefs, but not enough to lock everything in as fact in my mind. I feel like he contacts me just enough while keeping in line with this plan. I will be honest, occasionally I might hear a little voice every now and then or have a dream that really affects me. But they are never constant and just enough to keep me in the state of mind that the Holy Spirit wants me in. I know that I am exactly where he wants me to be and in the state of mind that he wants me to be.
The fact that I do hear the occasional voice or meaningful dream implies to me a plan and purpose. Because he could be doing it all the time, but he doesn’t. He is carrying out a plan. Makes me wonder just how powerful the Holy Spirit really could be. Certainly gives me hope in the rapture. I really do believe that he is just saving lost souls right now. At least that is my most logical guess. And he is doing it in the best possible way, a way well beyond our reasoning and understanding. He knows exactly what it takes to change the hearts and minds of a lost soul. It could be so much more complex than we realize. Not to mention he is trying to change so many at the same time. A plan is definitely taking place though in my opinion.
Then I will just add in some random thoughts I have had about Jesus and the New Testament. Part of me really believes that Jesus was hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit constantly. That he was constantly in communication with the Holy Spirit. Seems logical to me anyways.
I do have a feeling that miracles were and are still possible. That they have been possible this whole time. But, it’s all a matter of if miracles are serving the overall purpose of the plan of this universe. If miracles were useful to the plan right now, I believe they would be happening. Not that little miracles don’t happen everyday, but you know what I mean. I am talking about miracles just becoming part of everyday life around the world. But, perhaps miracles alone aren’t enough to change a hardened heart. Only God and the Holy Spirit truly know how to change the hearts and minds of people, especially on a mass scale.
But anyways, that is probably the most meaningful slug I have ever encountered hehe. Not that all slug encounters aren’t meaningful in their own way. As are all encounters in our life.
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