2 Chronicles 24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

We all have history. I am not sure if there is a chronicle of your life, but I have mine. It has changed over the years because truths are not always revealed in a moment. They are revealed as we are prepared to receive and believe them. Up until that time, life is nothing more than a perception.

I was born August 15^th, 1947, in my maternal grandmother’s bed on my grandfather’s farm. I was a blue baby, my umbilical cord wrapped around my neck.

My father was a WWII veteran born April 2^nd, 1910. I never knew the man he was before the war. I got the father with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder but none of us knew that at the time. One of the signs I can see know was a reluctance to share anything deeply personal and a determination to avoid all circumstances where his dark past could erupt. I saw it for a moment only once in my life.

Personal family history now leads me to believe that my mother probably suffered a mild case of Asperger’s syndrome. It is inheritable, perhaps more pronounced in me than her. It is also more pronounced in my daughter and my granddaughter is autistic. Mom was never diagnosed nor was I at the time.

These are all historical factors which led me to a point in my early teen years where I was angry all the time. If science was looking at Asperger’s at the time, my anger issues might have been explained in that diagnosis but it wasn’t and I did not know why I was angry all the time.

My oldest brother had a violent temper which led to his removal from our home.

Exodus 3:2-4 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

What did God do to get your attention?

Here Moses noticed the messengers signal. Angels are messengers, it is part of their job to post a notice that God is seeking an audience with us mere mortals. I will admit that this signal was extraordinary and unusual. I would not say wait for a burning bush but we all have one of those burning bush moments in our lives. Most are not that spectacular.

Tomorrow I will share my burning bush moment, my first contact. For now I would like to point out the process listed above.

First came the sign. Secondly the awareness. Thirdly the turning aside. Fourth God recognizes you are seeking answers. Finally God makes contact.

Signs are not always obvious. I didn’t understand this order back during my first contact. If I had I might have recognized what was happening. It happened back in the early 60’s so sorting it all out takes some prayerful meditation and a good deal of truth being seen thru His eyes and not my own. He knew what He was doing, I did not.

Circumstances led Moses to be a shepherd over the flocks of Median that day. Circumstances lead each of us to a point in our lives that defines our divine appointment. The tale of first contact begins with a personal history lesson. None of us come to this point in our lives without history.