Thank you. The prayers of wives seem to ping quite a few of us to unexpected things . . . I thought the man led the family!
You say “God spoke to me saying, in essence, ‘this is true, and you’d better straighten up.’” I didn’t really have words either, just understanding. I’m always impressed when people have an experience with God where they are given actual words. This fellow that was dead from the jellyfish actually saw words of scripture that he had never read before. Mother Theresa was told, with words, by Christ, to minister to the poorest of the poor. This impresses me. I don’t know why it impresses me more than learning without words, which is even more extraordinary in some ways, but it does.
Actually, I've had several "spoken to" experiences. While the experiences have always been useful, they've never been particularly "happy" -- they've always been God slapping me down over some personal conceit or other.