Scene One:
You’re talking to a friend. You’re in your house, or a park, or a store, just talking to your friend. He speaks, you speak, he speaks, you speak… then you pause and get a very puzzled look on your face. Your first thought: I’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE! You try to remember, but you can’t. You are certain. Then you remember the scientific, common answer for this phenomenon. They call it Déjà Vu.
Ah, yes; the brain doing a super-fast recycling of the last few minutes of your life. Happened so fast that you thought you lived it, but really it is just a neurological echo to recent stimuli from your environment acting upon your cerebrum. It’s all very simple. Déjà vu! It is a French word meaning: “Already seen”. Yup — been there, done that. Don’t you feel much better now?
Scene two:
God is sitting there talking to his created child. He has been trying to talk to his child for years. But the child is oblivious. God tries to share little morsels of His mind, at first, so as to not disturb or scare His creation. But His created child doesn’t notice. He is trying to give His child an advantage in life. He is trying to give his child help. He is trying to give his child information on how HE knows what HE knows. After all, His child was created in His likeness and image; although he has slipped from that image; just a little.
God seals up another event in a dream. He slips another in quietly during his child’s prayer times. They come fast. They come simple. God waits to see if his child will notice. It is missed. How sad. Why was it missed? ‘Oh that is just my subconscious playing tricks on me’ is the reply God hears from the child’s heart.
Scene three:
It is a week later. You’re walking down the sidewalk. A person asks you for a dollar. You’re caught off guard. You reach in your pocket to give a mercy-guilt buck. He smiles, nods and says thank you. You turn to walk on. And then it hits you: that strange feeling like you have been here before. You pause to reflect. You try to dismiss it. But this time you are so sure this has happened before. “But that is impossible” you say to yourself. Weird you say. But this time “Déjà vu” is NOT what you say. The event goes on a middle shelf, as you go on walking.
Scene four:
God looks down upon his child and says in His heart, “Finally! That is the 46th time in my child’s life my foreknowledge has manifested through so clearly. And even though it was once again rejected, today progress has been made. Today the impulse was not rejected out-right with a man-made idea. Today was the day it was correctly perceived: Deja View. It won’t be long now. The charismata of Prophecy will soon be operational.” God smiles! Another created child is closer to becoming like Him; knowing the future before it occurs.
Narrator:
Saint! Look again at the mirror of your mind. The image in the mirror might indeed closer than it at first appears! Prophecy tends to sneak up on you when you are least looking for it. God wants to communicate. Are you ready to recognize the transmission?
Original Copyright: © Anthony J. Massotti Th.M., Th.M. 2/19/2006