The "May The Spirit Be With Us" Story

It was an ordinary day. Spent the evening taking photos at the First Annual Advent Art Show at the Parish Resource Center in Lancaster. Carol is the Administrative Assistant for the President of the PRC. The PRC is a place were church congregations or church leaders can come to learn, receive help, or borrow materials that will aide them in their worship. The President, Dave, asked if I could take photos of the art show so they could use them on their web site. I arrived shortly after the show opened at 7:00 PM. Got to meet all the artists and had a chance to take a photo of each one with their artwork. Some had only one piece in the show while others had a full display. The theme of the show was "Longing for the Light" and most had that in mind when they placed their art in the show, but you would have to stretch your imagination quite a bit to fit others into the theme. One artist was a 27 year old refugee from Burma who is being sponsored by the Habecker Mennonite Church. His wife and child are still in a refugee camp. A young girl entered two horizontal five foot long by two foot high panels that were intense blackwith what seemed to be light coming from color on them. One member of PRC Board of Directors, who is also an ordained minister, entered two 16"x20" black and white designs which he made using Wordle on the computer. Pretty neat idea and they actually had the words "Longing for the Light" in them. A fellow in a Washington Redskins baseball cap had two oils that featured candles. After taking a few photos of the great room where the art was displayed I stood back and took a shot of the large poster that Carol made to announce the show. I placed the poster on the left of the photos and the great room to the right. Pretty neat photo. Then I was showing the photos to a PRC consultant who was onduty for the evening and realized that the one with the poster was very strange. There was a face on the poster. You could see a forehead, slight ridge where the eyebrows should be, lower cheek, lips and a jaw line among the words on the poster. WOW! Someone else came to see the show! A Pentecostal pastor was really moved with the frame on my camera and told me he saw a lion's face and told me about an angel who turned into a lion to fight off the witch. Never heard that story before, but I guess he knew what he was talking about. He showed it to a female minister from the UCC Church and she looked at it and said she didn't see a thing. Many thought the Holy Spirit was in attendance to bless the artists. After coming home I downloaded the photos into my iPhoto program and hit "Delete" after it was finished downloading. MISTAKE!! I no longer saw the face on the photo and worse then that, I no longer had the photo on my camera. I have included the photo with the story, but you will struggle to see anything other than a regular photo. The Holy Spirit is off to more meaningful venues than my computer. But, I'll tell you, I certainly was moved! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy. PS - Can you see any of the face that was seen by many in the last photo of the story? You know, at times I still can see an image!!