Talking in Tongues

Just got back from a women's retreat on prayer with the women of the FR's gospel church. I spent a full day and a half with these eight Black women, sisters. Within 3 minutes of our first Let's praise and worship session, these sisters were talking in tongues. I mean, it was on, and at first I was just standing there "ok. . .. ." and then within five minutes the spirit of that room took me too, the spirit I should say, it was not of that room, it was the Holy spirit and it came rolling in and was so there , like a wall in front of me. And I felt as though I could walk anywhere, go to any part of the room, and it would be there. it spread out. it was all ever present.
One woman was talking in tongues and then spasms with this scream every minute or so. right away, she focused on me and prophetized something that was astounding, it had to do with how I would bring people to the Church, to the Spirit of Christ, I don't want to mention it exactly, except that I say that it was pretty right on me, on my potential, as my gadma and I had just been quiety conferring about a lightbulb idea I have.
So the women got to crying and shouting and putting hands on each other. . . . . instead of describing this, I am tempted to just tell you what I got from this.

The only way to love, without creating the love, and trying to conjure it out of your own capacity, is with Christ. LIke when I love from Christ, it is this huge unstoppable love, this real love, this love from a source, not just me saying, "ok, I guess" and loving this or that that I like, or that I recognize in a person. For instance, there were two women that were just rubbing me the wrong way, and i think mostly because i couldn't understand them, what they were doing exactly. But when the spirit was there so strong i couldn't help but feel this thing, becyond love, that made me with them, that made me belong to them, we were all in this heavy feeling of the spirit, and it was like we were all of the spirit.

Then this pain kept creeping up in my back that i have had, a bothered feeling really, somehting not of me, for the last year and a half. it is a remnant of abusive times when i think something really invaded me. And in panic I asked Sister Flo to help me. right away she did without any hesitation, she just dunked in, and put her hands on my back, then three other weomen joined. and then not only did I feel the disturbing thing gone, but I actually felt somethign new and fresh, and me and beginning there. but i still felt something going on in my lower back which they had missed, then sister, the one I was having trouble comprehending or dealing with somehow in my brain, well she just came all boldly and rubbed my back and called on Jesus and then that area felt so new and becoming and yes and alright, and mine again.

You may know where I'm going now but it was the Spirit and how strong, how strong that even with this person i had somewhat dismissed, that she could bring the spirit in me and make it all better, it was not her personaility it was the spirit, which seems to be the most forgiving and beautiful thing. To be continued/beginning. . .