8 Year Old Mikaela's Vision Desert diary from Wednesday, August 25, 2004 I’ve been meaning to write this story down for the past month, but something kept coming up. Finally I’ve got a few minutes so I better tell it now before I start forgetting the details. We were in a Sunday evening prayer time after a service. Mikaela, my 9 year old daughter (8 yrs old last month when it happened) came into the service toward the end and went up and kneeled on one of the rugs we had laid out in front of the alter. There was some music gently playing in the background and David was praying intermittently. Mikaela kept kneeling, much longer than she would normally sit still for, so I put my hand on her back and prayed for her a little. She started holding out her hands and crying. She stayed this way for over 30 minutes – Way past her attention span under normal circumstances. Linda came over and prayed for her for a while, and Deanna took a turn as well. For a long while Deanna just held our little girl on her lap and rocked her and prayed. Mikaela seemed to really be getting touched by the Lord for the whole time! Later that evening I asked her what was happening and she explained the following to me: She said that she was doubting lately a little about how real God was. She asked God to show Him to herself and she said he “met” with her. She said she saw a beautiful place where the could run in green fields with other children. She also saw a throne with the Lord sitting on it with a Green rainbow above Him. The Lord was singing a song to Mikaela – a song about her own name. The Lord was singing “Mikaela Hanna” over her. This is interesting because her given name is Mikaela DeAnn Steele, not Hanna. Perhaps the “Hanna” name was to correspond to the devotion that Hanna had for the Lord in Biblical times. Later in the vision she said she saw her brother Jonathan all grown up. He was a gold miner. He was mining and pulling out treasure from his mine. The result of everything really cemented Mikaela’s belief and love for the Lord. She said that “absolutely believed in Jesus now, and would never doubt again!” This was a truly awesome point in a father’s life to get to be a part of. Brother Greg