Around 7:30 AM on July 11, 2004,
three would-be initiates and I were watching a DVD of Master's 1999
lecture at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Cape Town, South
Africa. I was boiling some water on the stove at the time, and had turned
on the kitchen ventilation fan.
A short while later, a neighbor
visited my home looking baffled and said, "This is strange! There's
a power outage in the area and I can't use my machine to compress dough
to make noodles. So why is your ventilation fan still running?"
'The power supply to your house
is for industrial use and mine is only for home lighting," I replied
in a matter-of-fact way.
Soon after, my wife went out
on an errand and heard people in the neighborhood talking about a power
failure that had begun at midnight throughout the village. Even then,
we paid little attention to the matter and continued watching Master's
DVD until we felt completely satisfied. By then it was 1:00 PM, and
the electricity to my house was finally cut off around that time.
When it was later confirmed that
there had been a power outage in my village beginning on the evening
of the 10th and lasting until 6:00 PM on the 11th, I suddenly realized
that we had been blessed by the grace of God and Master in being able
to watch Her DVD non-stop. We then immediately prayed to God with tears
of gratitude in our eyes and asked that Master soon give us initiation
and lead us—Her dear, dear children—Home to be with God
forever.