Adams Story

When we let love reign in our lives we see the changes not only in ourselves but in others too.

I had met Adam over the New years period at Byron a few years back, I don't remember how we met but I remember how he stood out. He was angry and lost, he had an identity within his Indigenous heritage and I remember sitting with him and his family under the trees in one park they would meet in often but he didn't know within himself who he was. Our first meeting was filled with conversations of his "powers", it took him a while to talk about these things as in the beginning he was heavily under the influence of drugs and you just knew he was really THERE, yet again he was another soul I learnt how to connect to over the years.  

He explained in his early years he was given powers and talked a lot of using light and laptops as a connection to other powers, blowing things up with his mind and powers he can have while on different drugs. Most people would laugh and think "well your on drugs and you believe you have powers, the equation isn't more obvious" but I have seen things over my life and not to discount him at the moment I asked him to show me. He genuinely was trying and he said he couldn't and that had never happened before, I asked him many things over this time about it especially about his connections to light and travel and different spirits, but he would listen, think and then reply "they say I can't tell you." I know within myself what he was talking about and what was talking to him.

 I would ask him about the light and what it meant to him and would the spirits ever tell him they loved him or were they just using him. He would take a moment to listen to me and them and respond "they will get angry" I responded, "because they don't know and they don't want you to know the truth." I knew he could talk to spirits, this would make others quite uncomfortable when we'd talk but I knew I was safe and who was protecting me and that I was stepping out in love, not to humiliate him. I understood.

He would talk of his hatred for the law and for rules but I did eventually find he loved music very deeply and the more I talked to him the more I began to see a change in him. At first he appeared as a young man, who wore the same shirt, slept on front porches night to night, had purple hair and was out of his mind unable to communicate with another human being but no problem with spirits. After the few weeks I was there and whenever I saw him I would go to him and say hello, ask him how he was and encourage him, listen to him just try to love his soul. He changed through this, he began to trust me, would hug me when he saw me and wouldn't talk to anyone else I was with or in general. 

The last day I saw him, he had changed completely, he had dyed the colour out of his hair, had fresh clothes on and was sober. He seemed happy and whole for the first time. The change I saw I cannot fathom, I would had him to God after every conversation and maybe in hindsight it wasn't about me wanting to help him, it  was God showing me this is who He is, He loves us and finds us and doesn't tell us what to do or how to be he just genuinely cares and nothing can hide that.

Adam will always be there in my memories, that you don't push people into something and force them to change, you be the love they need, not for your own glory but Gods. I realised it didn't matter what religious folk were about during that time, no one cared for him and sought him out like God's love.

If there is one thing you get from all this, is that deep down there is someone there, behind walls, if you can relate to this, so much more will you be able to love. We all have masks to hide behind and its not for any to mock, its up to us to see past it and really know someone and encourage them in all their weaknesses and strengths.