Gifted

ACTS 16:16-21

¹⁶ Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. ¹⁷ She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved.” ¹⁸ She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!” At that moment the spirit left her. ¹⁹ When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities. ²⁰ They brought them before the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar ²¹ by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice.”


They kept me from being the next Moses.
Was it because I was poor?
Was it because I was a woman and nothing more?

Our eyes locked and for the first time I couldn’t see who he was
It was almost as if there was something blocking his life from my visions
So I ran and touched his dirt-glazed chest and I saw him with twelve others
“What in the Lord’s most high name is wrong with this beast looking woman”

I saw a glimpse of joy,

Pure white light!

“If I can only hold him for a little while longer,”
            I thought.

As I began my quest to touch him
I felt a zap sit me right next onto the old woman, Rena’s, sacks of oranges
“Proclaim who they are! They serve the King of Heaven and Earth!”
Stumbling off the sacks my eyes closed shut and
My body cradled towards the ground again

With his voice commanding, “Come out of her!”

I might as well be blind