Familiarity and emotional ties to the past are not the Holy Spirit.
>>As I exited the church, there in front of me was a huge window with a picture of our Lady and the words, Ave Maria.<<
I can assure you that did not come from the Holy Spirit. The devotion to Mary is contradictory to what Jesus spoke. Mary is definitely not the “queen of heaven” and by Jesus own words is not to be considered more blessed than any other believer.
The Holy Spirit does not lead you to any error and the simple fact that you attribute the thing with the image of Mary is indication that the entire story was not from the Holy Spirit.
As usual. One person’s opinion and the assurance that what has happened to me was not of the Holy spirit is an assurance that may give you comfort as you reject what I wrote as false, but I know differently.
*****attribute the thing with the image of Mary****
No where did I say that, but as usual without reading and understanding it, I am not surprised you jumped to the wrong conclusion and overlooked huge portions of what I wrote.
I said that I returned home and prayed and studied because I was thoughtful that it was sentimentality that I was feeling and not a true feeling of being where I belonged.
I wrestled with it as I prayed and studied and went to Mass just to see if that feeling was there in a strange church, and it was.
The relevance to seeing the image of the Blessed Mother, Ave Maria was only because I had prayed that God show me if what I was doing was what He wanted me to do.
That image was that sign. I had never seen it before, had no idea it was there and it would be important to me only because of my memories of my Nan-na singing that song.
I know this will not change your opinion of what happened, but reject it for what I said and not for what you think I said. I know what’s what and I know what the Holy Spirit has done for me in my faith and in my life since I opened my heart to Him. That is enough for me.