To ask Our Vicar to

[LittleSilver]

bless our house?

Our house is VERY old (bits date from the eleventh century) It's lovely, usually has a great feel. I have never felt completely "alone" there, iyswim, but it has never bothered me. It is very remote but have happily stayed there by myself and the children when DH has been away.

Anyway, last night I woke up because DD2 (2) was crying. I got into bed with her, hoping she would go back to sleep, but she was very unsettled. Then I heard something (no idea what, it sounded metal and there is nothing there that is metal) fall over in a corner of the room, and I decided to take her into my bed, where DD1 had already gone. (Normally they both very good at sleeping in their own beds).

Anyway, we all go back to sleep, and I wake up again. I can hear a child crying. DDs 1 and 2 are in bed with me, DD3 is 10 months old and right next door, plus it's not a baby crying. It sounds very far away. I sat up in bed and turned the light on, I was so freaked out, and I could STILL hear it. I tried to wake up DH, but then it stopped. I'm totally freaked by this point and leave the light on. DD2 then wakes up and asks for a drink, I ask DH to pass me the beaker on his side of the bed. He's half asleep and says "Yes, and shall I get a drink for the old man that has just walked in through the door as well?" I am so freaked out that I slept with the duvet WELL over my hear.

I have never been spooked in my house before. I HAVE felt a prescence of some kind, but have never been remotely bothered by it.

Please can someone tell me I am being a twit? Mu husband said I am being very silly and it was just some lambs outside. I suppose it could have been.

How was last night littlesilver?

why don't you pray your own blessing on your house? When Jesus died we were given direct access to God through Him. You don't need your vicar to ask God for you.

I would start by speaking to your vicar and asking him to pray. I believe most dioceses have a "Deliverance team". I do know a vicar, not my own vicar, who on the advice of a deliverance team, has gone round and blessed every room in a house, and it cleared the house of the unexplained happenings that were there. He certainly believed there was a presence there, of someone who had died there previously. I also know my own vicar has been to houses to bless them, but that doesn't have to be because of unexplained happenings.

I would ask him
My dh does house blessings.
He wouldn't care whether someone was already a church member. not what it's about.
As for what a vicar does. hmmmmm. I have seen dh for about 2 hrs in the last fortnight.
But don't get me going....

my Mum is a CoS Minister and has done exorcisms several times. i would ask if it would make you feel better.

Have you considered that it may have been a hypnagogic hallucination?

Thanks everyone.

Yes, I am a member of my church and spoke to Our Vicar's Wife this evening at housegroup; general consensus was that there is a diocesan chappie who does blessings/exorcisms and I could chat to Our Vicar if I wanted to. Actually everything's been fine since then, so am going to call it Noises of Lambs in Lambing Season for the moment, as opposed to Bloody Scary Ghost In Bedroom. Did have a chat to the poeple who lived here before us; general consensus was pretty similar to MHO, that yes, they had heard the odd noise that could not be explained, and they never felt "alone" either. Ho hum. Thanks again chaps.

I think you should still get someone in to pray. If you're anything like me, you don't want to feel a pain/ maybe it was nothing afterall blah blah blah...

However I think you should make that phone call regardless. Sorry if I'm wrong here and making assumptions littlesilver.

If it gives you peace and helps you sleep well at night though, that's a good thing. Get someone in. Why not?