What would you say is the deepest truest spiritual moment that you can remember?

Question

I feel the closest to my Savior when I have received Him in the Sacrifice of the Altar or when I am at Eucharistic Adoration. I never leave either feeling empty or alone. Regardless of your religious beliefs or lack of them when do YOU feel most spiritual?No wrong answers I am actually curious.
Peace Be With You,
Debra

That is actually when I feel most spiritual but then the birth of my children was an extremely spiritual moment as well.

Answer 1

hi deb-alone in the woods at night when all you are aware of is how much life is out alive right then-love and hugs old hippie here

Answer 2

I awoke from a very strange, but suppose in a way bad dream a little over a month ago. Was a bit disoriented, and shaken from the dream. As I lay back down to try and sleep again, suddenly the room went completely black. No ambient light at all, and a figure appeared across the room, all in white. They looked to be just sitting there. As I watched, the white became brighter and brighter, until it was virtually all I could see was this brilliant white light eminating from the sillhouette of this being.

The only explaination I could come up with was that it was an angel visiting me. I had been struggling with some dark things earlier that day. That was probably the most spiritual experience I've ever had.

Answer 3

Spiritual experiences and religious experiences are two different animals.

I am a reverent agnostic, was raised as a Lutheran but tend to think churches miss the boat on spirituality.

Communion with my higher power doesn't happen in a church. Prayer and meditation give one some semblance of connection. For me I find I can connect with my higher power at anytime.

I sense the presence when I am sitting in an AA meeting or trudging to my favorite fishing hole.

People confuse emotion with spiritual experience. They are not the same. The fact you are moved by something could be something you ate. Knowing God does not require a building or a priest.

Comparing "deepest" experience I think that is something that a question that comes from a person that is a baby to their belief.

For me each day is a new spiritual experience. Each day has something that shows me "There is a God, and I'm not it".

When my children were born, when I got sober, when I finished college, when I was divorced, when I make love to my wife, when I talk to one of my AA sponsees/sponsors, when I clean gut barrels at a packing plant, scooping hog **** out of barn, when I am prospecting for gold in the mountains, or hunting quail or deer on the farm. Fishing on farm pond, All provide me pause to ponder..

Answer 4

Probably when I was baptized @ age 11, & my dad was baptized then too (him right before I was, & he hadn't been much of a churchgoer until a couple years before that). Or maybe when I was on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic, or when I was on a mission trip to Panama. Probably the Panama one, though. In the Dominican, I was playing & singing in Spanish @ the different churches w/ the piano group from my school, called "Keyboard Praise". In Panama I was singing @ the meetings that my pastor was holding there (in Spanish too, obviously). I sang in Spanish there too (for the alter call) @ the end of each meeting. My mom, me, & some other ladies also held Vacation Bible School for the kids there while mostly the men were building a brand new, much larger church, & some of the nurses & doctors from our church (as well as a few who were neither) had a health clinic. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything, but given the chance to do it again, SURE! I'll go!! :) Pray always. :)

Answer 5

July 19, 1997. I found (after reading the Tao te Ching) about a twenty minute stretch of time where I was at peace. Nothing mattered, in the sense that Nothing was the most important thing in the world. My overly active mind had emptied. I have been trying to find that again ever since.

Answer 6

There are so many!! I'm Catholic as well, and I think that the person I feel most closely to in the Holy Trinity is the Holy Spirit. Sometimes I just realize how much He works through all of us - He strengthened me a lot through my journey back to the Church.
I've also felt very close to God lately as I pray for the help of St. Gemma. She was the same age as I am (25) when she died, and she was known for her sweet, uncomplaining disposition as she suffered for God. I've been asking her for strength and help a lot, and let me tell you, St. Gemma's been coming through!!
Climbing Crough Patrick was an amazing experience as well. I offered my suffering all the way up that mountain for the souls in Purgatory, and I felt that I helped me, even if just a little.

Answer 7

I agree with you that receiving or adoring Christ in the Eucharist is the closest I come to him. But one time in particular sticks out in my mind.

I was at the Basillica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation on an overnight retreat. My wife had just taken my children from me and left after I caught her cheating on me. We were in the middle of a divorce that I didn't want. My world was shattered. It was dark in the church and I was alone. I had just finished the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and had moved from the Divine Mercy Chapel to the main sanctuary. There I prayed to Our Lord reserved in the taburnacle and felt closer to God than at any other time in my life. I didn't want to leave. I wanted to stay there with Jesus all night, but I had to get back to the retreat house before the doors were locked. I took that feeling with me back to the retreat house and it has greatly influenced my life since.

Answer 8

Dear Debra, I really like your question... Full of "brightness".

I am a non-theistic fan of planetology (science that studies planets).

I feel glad to answer your question, because it forces me to remember such deep true moments...

I need to remember them right now.

- on december 8th, 2004, 08:20 france-time, I was feeling very sad and alone. I was watching the stars in the night-sky, watching the Milky-Way, visualizing the galactic plane, and i told the "Universe": "All I want is to be happy in life.". Then suddenly, a beautiful shooting star crossed the night-sky...

Wonderful synchro, huh?

- I often feel deep inner-connections while watching pics of other planets, satellites, their surface, their landscapes, colours, exotism, variety, unexpectations, their "arrogance" lol (theoretical models are quickly obsolete as new pics from space-probes come: they contradict theories lol), etc.

A few days ago, I really felt "wow!" inside of me thx to a pic of the plutonian system - or of the binary planetary system Pluto-Charon surrounded by their 2 little satellites:

http://images.spaceref.com/news/2006/nixhydra_lg.jpg

- my little fav "prayer" is: "Pure Light always finds its way whatever it seems."

Answer 9

1) When I received salvation and became Born Again;

2) When I realized God had given me some very interesting spiritual gifts.

3) Each and every time God communicates with me as I use these gifts.

Answer 10

When I went on a Chrysalis when I was 15. Check out upperroom.com and choose Walk to emmaus if you are over 18, it is the adult version

Answer 11

The day I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior and Lord. I could see how my life as a "pseudo-Christian" was such an offense to God. God is so good to us. There is no other name under heaven that can save us, but Jesus Christ. Amen?