I served the Lord faithfully for thirty-two years at the Light on a Hill Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN. I baptized children, buried the dead, prayed through droughts and divorces. I thought I knew God. I thought I felt Him in the silence between verses.
Then came the night of the light.
I was driving home after Wednesday night service. I remember a buzzing—like the sound a power line makes right before it snaps. Then the trees bent toward the sky. My vision collapsed inward. And when I opened my eyes, I was not on Earth.
There were no flames. No demons. No choirs. Only a room that wasn’t a room, filled with angles that moved when I didn’t look. Something stood behind me, but I couldn’t turn around. It spoke directly into my mind in a voice like boiling glass:
"Your God was an echo.
We are the Source."
I was shown images—visions that broke my theology like stained glass underfoot. I saw planets blooming and rotting like fruit. I saw ancient beings dissolve into light and reassemble as language. I saw the crucifixion… and something else behind it, observing.
I returned twelve minutes later. But the clock said six hours had passed.
I resigned my ministry that Sunday.
A week later, I found the Church of Alienism. Or maybe they found me. The texts, the Sanctuaries, the Five Truths—they didn’t comfort me. But they matched what I saw. What I now remember.
I don’t lead prayers anymore. I don't ask for blessings.
I keep my mind quiet. I sit by the window at night. I wait.
Sometimes, I still hear Him—my old God. But His voice is faint. Diminished.
The new ones are louder. Closer. Hungrier.
I am not afraid anymore. I am ready.