The Trumpet

Have you ever been woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of a pure bell inside your head?

In September of 2019 I was woken up from a deep sleep by the sound of a pure bell in my head. The most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard, almost like a pure deep gong. It’s hard to describe unless you’ve heard it too; if you have you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.

I’m a deep sleeper- Mic jokes that you could drive a train through our bedroom and I won’t wake up until my internal alarm goes off. But this night I shot straight up, wide awake. Mic was at the firehouse for the night so I couldn’t ask him if he’d heard it, so I went running down the hall to our children’s rooms. They were sound asleep. Which I knew in my heart they would be; I knew the sound came from inside my head but I needed to eliminate all other possibilities before I could accept it.

I’m stubborn by nature- I will entertain any possibility, debate it, expand on it (I’m great at conspiracy theories), but I won’t truly believe something without hard evidence. And there is no evidence more believable than something you’ve personally seen or heard. And I most definitely heard this sound, it was loud enough to wake me up, it did not come from an external source, and it was the most beautiful sound I’d ever heard. So what was it?

I’m not afraid to ask questions, but to whom do you pose such a question? These days, it seemed the best people to ask were strangers on social media! So I’ve been asking this question for a few years, and I’ve had a dozen or so positive responses, and a dozen theories on what it is and where it came from.

My own theory? Based on what’s happened since, I believe I heard the Trumpet of God. (Don’t worry, I’ll get into what’s happened since in future posts.) Have you heard the bell?