The Day Padre Pio and the Stigmata Found Me
by Nikki Walton of CurlyNikki.com
TMI…
About 30 minutes ago, I was sitting on the toilet in my bathroom with the door open (on-suite, lol, my bedroom door was closed and locked)… I had just sat down, and out of the corner of my eye, a teeny speck of light caught my eye. Like dust in a sun beam, but my shades were drawn and there was no beam… just the little orb of light that seemed to disappear as fast as it appeared.
It drew my attention to a book sitting on my night stand amongst many others– Padre Pio’s ‘Secret of a Soul’. I haven’t read it yet but the Holy Spirit made me dig it out about a week ago and there it sat, in wait, on top and underneath other books. The little orb of light seemed to go right into the binding of that book.
I was back downstairs for a while, listening to a spiritual talk on the Blood of Jesus, when I remembered the little Light-messenger. So I came back up here, where I sit right now, typing to you, because who else could I tell such things haha! I laid across the bed, opened the book to the first chapter and begin reading. It’s about how Padre Pio received the Stigmata. I skimmed ahead (like I do) only to find him say to his superior (it’s a book of his journal entries), ‘it was on the morning of the 20th last month... ‘.
I sat up on the bed. And grabbed my phone and googled, ‘Pio stigmata date’… I was like, ‘no way was it on Sept 20th…’ and yes. It was. It is. Sept 20th of 1918. That’s all folks. That’s my life. Of all the books I’d read, on all the days. These are the little winks I get sent. And then I get sent to you to share! Can’t make this stuff up!
from- Secrets of a Soul, Padre Pio’s Letters to His Spiritual Directors –
