Difficult and personal question: What experiences have taught you the most?

Question

I have been molested as a girl, raped as a teen, abandoned as a young woman, burried a child at full term birth as well as 4 before term, I have faced an illness that has made my life difficult and now face another medical situation that needless to say is painful and difficult, and I was once homeless. These are just a few of the experiences that have made me who I am and taught me the most.
God is His mercy has held me and taught me from these things.

LOL Win what? I beleive we all have our experiences that make us who we are.

In return my blessings: Two sons, one Christian and loving husband. A job caring for the elderly that I love, and so many friends and the ability to care about others.

Answer 1

I never had a father around, except for God who was always there in my heart. I been accused all my life of things I've not done. I've had to learn to fight just to get to school and back home, and been beaten by my mother, and step father. I been beaten by others trying to protect someone. I survive a drowning, suicide, two bad car crashes, drove off the road four times, fire, guns pointed, and fired at me, Divorce, bicycle incident with two cars, snowmobile incident to where I was in flight over 100mile an hour, someone like God put me in the air in order to make it over a very large ditch that I didn't know was there.
Been in jail, for things I've not done, last time was nine months in jail, and I saved a life, and God took the states only witness a state cops life, the cop that prejudge me before court, they had no choice to free me, but I still suffer the time, God was there by my side through it all, I've learn a lot through experiences.
God teach me through experiences.
God and the Spirits that he sends, help to protect me, and my children that he has plans for:)

My gains through it all, four children that love God, and another I am raising now. gain knowledge and understanding, I was able to let go my resentment, I've gain a close relationship with our Lord, I'll die doing his will, helping others in any way God leads me to.

Answer 2

The one that taught me the most was when I wound up homeless in the middle of northern wisconsin winter and had to hitchhike to a different city to find a job(all the ones around my area had dried up). Sleeping in snowbanks is a very humbling experience, and now my door is never closed to people in need. I also learned not to judge anybody, because it doesn't take much to wind up in their shoes. I also learned that just because a church has a homeless shelter doesn't mean that it's open to the public--blessed be!

Answer 3

Oh good heavens... bless you for being so strong, Debra. I look forward to hearing more from you. Can you tell us some bit of wisdom or some other realization that you have because of one or more of those horrible experiences? My life has been nothing like yours...
Do you have children?

ANOTHER EDIT
There sure are a lot of people who have had massively difficult lives. I am so happy that through all of this junk you've had to get through, you are here now and testifying and praising God. THAT is cool.

Answer 4

I had an alcoholic physically and emotionally abusive father, a mother who had a nervous breakdown after my father left but I was too scared my sister and I would be split up so I simply took care of the household rather than have that happen. I moved to another city with my family and my mother started to recover but then became a working mother so was never around. I had to go to work and finish my high school (I paid my own way) myself as well as took care of my little sister. Then I married a man that cheated on me and abused me. Divorced him. Met someone over the internet and have been doing long distance with him for 8 years now. We got married in June and are working to bring him here. In the meantime, I was hit by a car and almost died then suffered months (almost a full year) of physiotherapy to recover the ability to walk, my mother died of lung cancer caused by smoking in 2003, and my husband had to go through huricane Katrina where I couldn't be with him through it due to the distance. And that only barely begins to scratch the surface of all that's happened to me in my life.

You know what it taught me? The Christian god doesn't exist. Things that happen are simply a natural part of life. I adopted Wicca. It suits me much better than this supposedly benevolent god Christians like to say exists.

Answer 5

Yes, we are all a composite of our experiences. I lost my sister at age 23 to ovarian cancer, one year after I got married. She wanted to see a child of mine before she died, but of course I couldn't get pregnant in time. Two weeks after her funeral I got pregnant and cried all through my pregnancy over her not living to know or see the baby. I almost died giving birth, and my son had lots of problems. I never had another child. My life has been a series of losing family members and friends to cancer. My last loss was two weeks ago.

I spent my first 25 years as a religious person, secure in the knowledge that I was loved by God. But after becoming disilusioned with religion, I began searching for the truth. And that led me to where I am now. A Deist who shuns all religion and gains no comfort from what I feel are lies and wishes.

Isn't it funny where life leads us?

Answer 6

I was beaten by my father
I witnessed my fiance's suicide
Spent two years living in the streets
Attempted suicide
Overcame a cocaine addiction
Buried my daughter
Raised 3 son's on my own
I now have Rheumatoid Arthritis
Osteo-arthritis
Fibromyalgia
Palindromic Rheumatism
Take chemotherapy to control these diseases.

Did I learn anything? I don't really know. I guess I've learned just how strong I can be. I can face adversity and come out victorious.

Answer 7

The loss of someone very very dear to my heart. I miss him every minute. I am sorry to hear that you have experienced such pain in your life. You must be a very strong person to keep on going. Life teaches us new lessons every day, though, for some of us, not as extreme as yours have been. Try to focus on the good that has come out of these tragedies. Maybe then your list will change from the bad things that have happened to the good ones.

Answer 8

I have undergone alot. What we hear is possibly the wrestling with God all night until he strikes us in the hip? My chastisements have only brought me closer to God. Sometimes I think my past was that way to show me the depth of my pride. I mean the more we sin and reap the reward (in my case only) the more the final straw strikes us. After the sin of Pride is discovered in oneself it is like a house of cards the rest of the facade comes tumbling down.

Answer 9

Yours are certainly experiences hard to swallow, but you did endure them and are here to tell about them. God gives us all trials to endure and experiences that will "prove us herewith" as the Bible mentions.

That is the purpose of coming to earth, gaining a mortal body, and to make the right choices in returning to the Father. He wants us all to experience trials and joy because such events will edify us for later.

I've learned by hard experience to seek and expect forgiveness of my sins from God and not to make excuses for a life I thought was best to live at the time. Surviving Vietnam and other combat situations pales to what I brought upon myself for too many years that kept me from my church.

Answer 10

The difficult times in my life have caused me to learn about myself. I have developed an optimism from these bad times because every time, things did get better. I am now a 'hopeless optimist'.

I am not going to tell any details. I don't talk about these bad times.