Yahweh and the Butterfly

Kelli Sincock wrote me the following essay after having found my page A Change Will Do You Good.

Stick with it.  It will do you some good in reading it.

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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:02:17 -0700, Kelli Sincock wrote

An amazing thing has happened. I know it sounds silly, but I have been praying for the last few days for the name of my guardian angel to be revealed to me.  According to an angel book I have been reading you can pray to know your angel's name and eventually a name will come to mind. Then within a short amount of time the name will be reinforced in different ways.  Well, I had been praying to God and to my angels to protect me and to deliver the name of my guardian angel, but nothing was coming to me. I was beginning to think I wasn't going to find out and had reasoned that it just wasn't the right time.

Last night, before falling asleep, I prayed again, honestly thinking it was a chance in a million that my request would be heard and granted.  I had a horrible nights sleep.  I tossed and turned with my back in excruciating pain.  My constant movement was waking Austin so I did my best to be as still as possible, but it seemed the more I held still the more intense the pain became.  Finally, I prayed as hard as I could that the pain would subside and that I would succumb to sleep.  Approximately 3:33 a.m. I took one final look at the clock and fell asleep.  Morning came very soon, as I was extremely groggy from my night's battle.  Austin woke me in the morning and as I quickly opened my eyes I saw, as clear as day, a jagged black outline in the shape of a butterfly right in front of my eyes.  It disappeared as quickly as I could recognize it.  A few moments later a name popped into my head.  I had never heard the name before, it sounded middle-Eastern, and I wasn't even sure how to spell it. So, I let it go and began to fall back asleep.  A few moments later the name came back again.  It just sort of wandered into my consciousness again.  I tried to spell it out visually in my mind so that I would remember it and went back to sleep again.

Eventually after Austin had left for work, I got up and made some coffee.  As I stood in the kitchen I realized that I had forgotten the full name!  I remembered the last few letters and wrote them down.  I tried to remain calm about not remembering the name because I find that I remember better when stop trying.  So, I sat down at my computer, turned it on, and as I waited for it to boot up, the name popped into my head again!  I quickly wrote it down so that I wouldn't forget it, again!  I typed the name into a search-engine thinking, I'm probably spelling thing name wrong, but I'll see what I get.  I carefully typed in the name 'Yahweh'.  Much to my complete surprise and overwhelming sense of joy, the name 'Yahweh' is known throughout the history of scriptures as the personal name of GOD!

I was so overcome that I broke down in tears!  God told me his name! Never in a million years would I have expected this.  I feel very, very blessed.  God knows how much I have longed for a strong and loving father presence in my life, and now I know that he is watching over and protecting me every day of my life.  He is my father, Yahweh, and I love him so very dearly.

I wasn't sure what the butterfly reference was about until I read your pages regarding the significance of the butterfly.  My life has been a continual state of metamorphasis and change, and Yahweh has been making himself present in my life for over a year now.  (It feels odd to refer to him as Yahweh after all of these years of honoring the title of God). The changes have been very hard and often very, very lonely.  I thank you for your wisdom, insight and words of encouragement.

L-rd bless us all, Kelli Sincock.

Jackson Snyder <snyder@jacksonsnyder.com> wrote: Kelli -- Just got you butterfly mail.  It went to a box I only check once in awhile. Is that really true?  If so I'd like to publish it on my site. There is a great deal of danger in asking 'angels' for names. You have been protected; somebody certainly has been interceding for you! Jackson Snyder  (801) 605-1715

Hi Mr. Snyder, Yes, my story is absolutely true.  You are more than welcome to publish my story if you feel it is useful.  I'm interested though to know why you think asking for your angel's name is dangerous?  I'm not disagreeing with you, just curious and doing a lot of searching at the moment. Thank you for the response, God bless, Kelli.

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