About Spiritual Gifts…

Hello world. The following was written 8/13/2016.

As a child I experienced many things that were considered to be evil so were feared by the church and my family. The abilities or gifts I was given caused me a lot of pain and suffering growing up. Because of my families purviews and the church’s purviews of such things I was punished if and when I would mention what I was experiencing. Their fear caused me to try to shut down my abilities. I would deny they were there and what I was experiencing to keep from being punished mentally, emotionally and physically. I learned I would be accepted if I would deny who and what I AM.

My family was Catholic and held a belief that I was possessed by demons and needed to be exorcised and the demons beaten out of me when I would speak of seeing the dead and hearing them. It took me many years to come to terms with these abilities I am given. To accept myself as I AM without judgments. One of the things that helped me do this were the following passages from Scripture that were shared with me by a medium named Kimberly Ray Babcock who had been going through similar experiences within her own Spiritual community…

“Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;”

- Romans 12:6

“Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.”

- 1 Corinthians 12:1