Hello, welcome to Follow Him favorites.

This is where John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's Come Follow

Me lesson.

John, it's Easter here at Follow Him.

I thought I would share with you a story that I think we'll speak to what we all hope.

We hope and expect that our loved ones who we have lost are interested in us.

We will have those reunions one day. This story was told by our friend Robert Millett, who has

been on our podcast many times. He starts his story this way. He says, answers to prayer usually come in quiet ways to

mortals through the mediation of the Holy Spirit and through the intervention of other mortals.

There are times, however, when God chooses to do the unusual. He says, this is an intensely personal

experience. He was talking about he and his wife,

they were praying for one of their children because this child, this son, had completely

separated himself not just from the church, but from his family entirely. He became addicted

to drugs and buried himself in a hellish world that held out

little hope for him, John, not just like religion, but life. To live, yeah. To have a happy life.

It said they tried to reach out to him. Where is he? Is he in prison? Is he lost? He said,

we didn't hear from him for months. Can you imagine, John, as a father and mother, the worry and the pain? Here's what Bob says. One night, as Shauna and I knelt in prayer, broken and torn emotionally from worry, we wept through our prayers and pleaded long and hard, once again,

for the good shepherd to lead his wandering sheep home. He says we went to bed and slept in sorrow.

Sometime that night, I found myself dreaming.

My father, who had passed away several years before, came to me in my dream, embraced me.

Both you and I know Bob well.

He is a careful teacher.

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