Ever had a life changing experience?

Question

Tell me about it.
Did it involve drugs? Christ? Family?

Answer 1

At the ripe old age of 20 I decided to follow my heart and my new husband on a trip to California to move in with his elderly grandfather.When we arrived we found that his grandfather had passed and he owed back taxes and we were out of a home.Although we looked for work,without a home or phone our luck ran out.I then followed my husband from town to town,hitchhiking our way to try and find work.Although we usually found a job,my EX-husbands social inadequacies usually turned the job into a temporary one.We were HOMELESS for a total of 2 and1/2 years until I got pregnant and we settled in Spokane Washington,which has alot of programs to help the homeless.In those years of homelessness I learned the true meaning of life.With NO money and NO home ,we had only each other.There was No fairy godmother or prince charming coming to rescue us.We eventually broke up but it was AFTER we became UN homeless.I learned that you are responsible for yourself and no amount of money can replace the feeling of living without boundaries of loving wholeheartedly or of living with nothing but what you can carry on your back.It was an experience that I'd recommend to everyone.It was a HUGE life lesson.

Answer 2

I first started volunteering for the Muscular Dystrophy Association at their local summer camp 9 years ago. It was a dramatically life-changing experience for a fairly self-centered 17 year old... "Camp is for the Camper!" is the mantra that volunteers repeat over and over. I was there to ensure that my camper had a great week - this was NOT intended to be a vacation.

The idea of living a week of your life purely to aid another person, to be responsible for their well being, was a scary one. Overcoming the boundries of physical ability, differences in life experience, and hesitancy to assist a virtual stranger with very physical needs such as eating and bathing, was hard at first but the bonds of friendship that develop as a result are amazingly strong and lasting.

Some of the very best people I have ever had the fortune to meet attend MDA Camp. The campers are amazing children in every sense of the word. Every year I return is another life changing, sleep deprived, energetic, exhuberant, heart warming experience for me.

Answer 3

Kind of boring but very true. Having my children changed my life in the blink of an eye. Many many ways.

One of the most profound ways was that I realized one night while watching my newborn daughter sleep, and wishing my mom was here to see her - it dawned on me that I had been angry at my mother for 15 years for dying and leaving me. Until that moment, I didn't know it. It started a healing process and was really a defining moment.

Answer 4

Family Crisis and Christ.

Answer 5

Yes. I have had more than one life changing event happen in my life. The latest was a natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina. I have become much more spiritual. It broke something in my psyche and I am not afraid to be myself anymore. Watching something that powerful destroy my community has allowed me to become 'reborn'. I don't mean in the Christian sense either. I am not afraid of anything, not ever again.

Answer 6

It was when my ex-girlfriend walked out on me for another guy. I thought my life was over and had no where to turn but to God. If he couldn't get me through it, then no one could. That is when my life changed. No more drinking or hardcore partying. Started going to church and now I teach teenagers about the God that met me in a broken, drunken, didn't care about life state. The God that pulled me up out the gutter and made me a leader in his army.

Answer 7

some years in the past I had a crappy activity in a sawmill stacking one hundred-3 hundred pound products of timber all day long for purely somewhat above minimum salary. issues have been only getting worse and worse. We had a nil.5 hour for lunch established and that i had forgotten to %. mine that day so I rushed approximately 5 miles down the line to the closest keep. It replaced right into a shabby convenience keep and the only element i ought to discover to eat replaced right into a ham and cheese sub wrapped in plastic from the cooler. i offered it and attempted to eat it in the present day on the force lower back to artwork. The sandich regarded particularly stable yet approximately 3 bites in i found out it replaced into particularly much all bread, dry bread. i replaced into ending it as I have been given out of my vehicle to pass lower back to artwork and the final chew caught in my throat. frequently while this occurs I take a drink of a few thing and it washes precise down. no longer this time, all that dry bread swelled up and that i could no longer breathe in any respect. the different men I worked with have been approximately thirty yards away ending their lunches. i began out to pass over to ask for help and found out that those faces weren't the final element i had to be certain in this international. So, no longer having any oxygen for particularly much a minute now I only gave up and became the radio up(Jimi Hendrix replaced into taking part in Little Wing) and leaned lower back in my seat and waited to die. My throat could desire to have comfortable when I did, because of the fact beforehand I knew it the blockage in my throat only slipped down. i've got attempted to look at each and every 2d of existence as a cutting-edge on account that then.

Answer 8

Yes, when I learned to become open-minded and unafraid to discover the possibilities and learn about others faiths and religions. Now I make my own spiritual path and I am much happier for it!

Blessings and Light!

~RW

Answer 9

It was when I realised how stupid christianity was. Although it was just me growing out of it, like santa and the tooth fairy etc. But now I am a real theologian.

Answer 10

Yes ,my family