Sparks

By David A. Kellison

This book is a collection of short stories, poems, and inspirational materials from memories of seventy years of contact with the Spirit of God. It contains stories of my encounter and others coming to the realization of someone much bigger than we are wanting a relationship. It also has stories about how we make mistakes and how God uses friends and family members to guide, teach, and move us in a direction that he wants us to go or something he wants us to do. This book tells not only of the hard works involved in the dealing with Godly things but also the joy and sometimes the funny things people do as they journey through life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781984576958

David A. Kellison

Raised during the World War II era, David Kellison was raised by an equipment operator and a homemaker on a rural farm in Culpeper, Virginia. Joining the Navy at the tender age of nineteen, he enjoyed an illustrious career that spanned twenty-two years and over thirty-four different countries. In the Navy, he was a Seabee who was assigned to the State Department and traveled the world from New Zealand, South America, Africa, Europe, and China. In Vietnam, he served five different campaigns in service to his country. In 1982, he decided to dedicate his talents to the private sector and became a Virginia Contractor while owning his own construction business. After having heart surgery, David decided to gather some writing and spiritual adventures over the years. This book details those writings and adventures.

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Spiritual thoughts and things from the wisdom of heaven are received to develop man’s spirit in order to feed and nurture his soul for his final home with God in eternity.

CONTENTS

1     A New Dimension

2     Answering the Call

3     A Conversation with God

4     Meeting Elizabeth

5     Andre’s Encounter

6     Every Knee Will Bow

7     Comforting Dream

8     Disaster

9     Not Knowing

10   Songbird

11   The Touch of the Spirit

12   Living Waters 3/98

13   The Spirit and the Church

14   The Six-Second Approach

15   The Cane from Above

16   The Community Breakfast

17   Here I Am, Lord, Send Me

18   Faith of a Christian Woman

19   The Burning of Michelle

20   The Piercing of a Thirteen-Year-Old

21   The First Day of Eternity

22   The Emmaus Upper Room

23   The Dog and the Angel

24   When the Kingdom Arrives

25   You’re 2 Kind

26   Why Did God Choose Me?

27   The Gift

28   Rental Space

29   A Veteran’s Story

30   My Father’s House

31   What Is This Gift?

32   The Wind

33   The Way

34   The Man

35   The Healing

36   The Child

37   Someone Is Praying

38   My Cross to Bear

39   Looking

40   Judging by the Cover

41   I Must See You Today

42   Honor

43   Good Night

44   Eastland

45   An Offering

46   A Walk among the Thorns

47   A Tribute to Mama

48   A Ram in the Thicket

49   Before and Beyond

50   Call of the Wilderness

51   The Cane

52   Peter’s Fall

53   The Samaritan Woman

54   That Needs to Be Tilled

55   The Adulteress Woman

56   The Wait

57   Eyes on Me

58   Thoughts

About the Book

A New Dimension

No one will be completely whole until they find themselves at home in God. The harmony of the human being is achieved only when one finds God and when one arrives at an inner communion with that which is greater than oneself. Spiritual healing is the touch of the spirit of God in one’s soul, and then that touch awakens a person to an awareness of something that words cannot describe. It transforms instantly into a new dimension of life—a spiritual dimension. This spirit of the Lord lifts the seeker into a new consciousness of life, the state of consciousness that the Master described as my kingdom not of this world. The person lives in a dimension of life other than the three-dimensional one, and his/her experiences are totally unknown to others currently existing on the human level. When a person responds, it means that he/she is lifted into a new dimension of consciousness, which their physical limitations do not restrict them. This explains what most people experience in their life. Their journey and growth are a relationship with God, the place where you are becoming one in God with the same purpose! God will always take you into another dimension—the fourth dimension. Walk without fear. By David A. Kellison.

Answering the Call

There were six of us kids, four boys and two girls. I was the youngest of the four boys, and the two sisters were younger than I. We lived in an old two-story farmhouse, originally an old log home with slats and plaster over the log. I remember when we first moved into the house in the late forties, the kitchen was attached to the house, but there was no entrance to the house, so we had to bring the food around through the front door and serve it. Or you would have to go out by way of the front door and go to the kitchen and eat in the kitchen as there was no formal dining room. My dad decided he was going to cut an entranceway from the setting room into the kitchen so we would have a passage from the kitchen to the rest of the house. I remember the smell of burning logs by the chainsaw cutting through the wall. Today, this house still stands and is the tenth-oldest house in the county. I remember on Saturdays, my dad would take a couple of his boys with him to repair some of the plaster on the walls and to do some minor repairs to the steps leading upstairs. For lunch, he would go get some sardines and crackers, and sometimes he would get some baloney and cheese for the saltine crackers.

Soon Dad moved our family into the house, and each of us was assigned bedrooms upstairs. There were four bedrooms, all barely big enough for all of us. The two oldest boys were given the far bedroom over the kitchen. My older brother and I shared the next bedroom, and the two girls shared the bedroom next to the steps. Dad and Mom got the bedroom to the right of the stairway. Everyone had to share a bed, and I can remember many problems with this arrangement. For example, my brother would let gas out in bed and hold the covers over my head so I could not escape, and then he laughed like a little devil. With four boys, what other behavior could you expect?

I can remember every Sunday morning, we would get dressed, and Dad would take the family to a little Baptist church nearby. Today, that church has peacocks running around outside and is preserved as a historical building. I can remember my dad listening to Billy Graham on the radio and being moved by his sermons. When Billy Graham preached in Richmond, Virginia, my dad took the whole family to the gathering, and when we returned, he decided that we all would be baptized. I can remember the little pond beside the little church had to be cleared of the frogs before we were baptized. My dad was a Baptist, but my mother was a Methodist, although we never went to a Methodist church. It is evident that spirituality was important for my parents and their children.

It had to be the late forties or early fifties when I first heard the call. It was probably a Saturday morning, and I was bouncing a little ball against the wall in my bedroom. As I was bouncing the ball, I heard someone say, David! It was a voice that was familiar, yet I did not know who it was. Immediately I thought it was Mom who had called. I ran downstairs and found my mother and asked her if she had called me! She said no, and Dad was not home, so I knew it wasn’t him. I immediately went back upstairs to my room and started to bounce the ball once again. Maybe about ten minutes had passed, and once again, I heard the call, David! Once again, I went downstairs and found my mother and asked if she had called me! She told me she had not and ordered me to go away because she was busy. I returned to my room and began to bounce the ball against the wall. About another fifteen minutes had passed, and I heard the call again, David! This time, I just yelled out, Ma’am, but no answer returned. And I began to resume bouncing the ball and continued until I was finished, but I heard no more calls for my name.

It was funny, years later, I would learn about the story of Eli and Samuel. The story paralleled my story of the calling of my name from that farmhouse. I often wondered how my parents may have told me what to do if were they more in tune with this story. At any rate, I have it as a memory that will last until the day I die. That was the day that God called me by name even though I did not answer the call. A true story by David A. Kellison.

A Conversation with God

I sat down this morning and picked up my Bible. I opened to 1 Peter and began to read. I finally truly understood what those verses meant and what He wanted to tell me. I stopped reading and began to pray. I started by just thanking Him for what I had just read and the understanding He had given to me and then began to thank Him for the retreat and the awesome way He had come onto the weekend and how many people He had filled with the spirit and how He impacted everyone. I began to cry