2006-10-22 06:58:34 · 17 answers · asked by Einstein 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My learning to love again after I lost my girlfriend in a car accident thirty years ago. We were to be married once I crossed 21. She was older than me by a year.
Life's Lovely! Love & Live Life!
2006-10-22 22:56:25 · answer #1 · answered by Starreply 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
More than a few events have changed my life but I'm choosing one from the time period when I actually started living.
I read a book called "Boundaries" and realized that I was taking too much responsibility for other people and not enough for myself. I learned to set some limits and define what is me and what is not me, how to take ownership and responsibility for my life, how not be manipulated by others, how to have my own thoughts and opinions, when to say yes and when to say no.
It's one of life's interesting paradoxes that when I didn't have any fences in my life to keep in the good stuff and keep out the bad, I felt trapped. When I set some boundaries, I found freedom.
2006-10-23 11:04:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anne Teak 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of events have changed my life as I have lived for a while. Hurricane Katrina was the latest.
2006-10-22 14:17:08 · answer #3 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi:
My life was changed the day as a boy of 8 years old I put my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and through the words of John 3:16 I realized that Jesus died for me. It was at this point that I began my christian life over fifty years ago.
2006-10-22 14:03:30 · answer #4 · answered by perrin556 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The biggest event was my divorce. That did change my entire life and that of my family and without that event, the next one would probably never have taken place.
The other event......smile......and I will never be the same...thank god...wink
2006-10-22 14:02:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The event that changed my life was when I found a 2 week old baby girl in a hospital in a foreign country. She was left to die in a cemetary, found the next day by police, and rescued from a painful slow death. I tried to adopt this little girl. I even was priviledged to take care of her for 7 months in this 3rd world country.
On Thanksgiving Day, she was taken from me and I was told that the law said I could not adopt her and someone was claiming they were a relative! All this on a day when we are to give thanks in everything! The question that went unanswered for a long time; "What did I have to be thankful for?"
The opportunity to serve God and to be thankful was found in the caring for this little child. I have been told that she was later adopted by another family from another country. Her picture reminds me of God's love, grace, and care He openly gives us.
It changed my life, the moment I realized that no matter how painful a situation may be in life, no matter how dark a situation appears, no matter how much you question God with 'why or why-not?' the Hope that remains is the Hope found only in the Joy of God.
Joy does not mean everything is ok, or that the pain is gone and you have a happy- happy, joy-joy attidude every awake moment of your life. The joy that I am referring to is the kind of joy that is experienced when you allow the love of God to surround you, teach you, and help you thru the most painful times of your life.
No man, no words, no comfort is there, except the grace that abounds in your life when you reach out to God and ask Him and Him alone to heal your pain. This came many many months after that never forgotten Thanksgiving Day.
Now, there are days I still cry, days I still get angry, days I still have questions, and days that I still feel betrayed- but joy does come in the morning. I do not regret the efforts taken to adopt this child, as I know I was used to rescue her and care for her in a crucial time in her life.
The beauty in this painful experience was that it opened up another opportunity of adoption. After over 20 years of wanting children, our dream was finally allowed to come true in our lives. Oh how blessed we are. The events of the first painful experience, led us down a path to open doors for a child that no one even made an attempt to adopt when she was made available to the world. If we had not started the process, the adopion agency said they were going to take her off their site. Oh the timing of God is amazing.
Do I hang on to the memories of this tragic time in our lives- yes but I also take hold of the hope that maybe someday, sometime, somehow- our lives will cross again. After all, it did happen to a little girl named Agnes. Knowing that this little cemetary girls' life changed mine, I hope I am still able to touch her world by praying for her everyday and loving her just the same as if she was living under my direct care. Also, by sharing my story, it may touch other people with a renewed Hope of God. She has made an impact on my life, she changed my life, and I believe she is marked to make an impact on the world- for she was born for such a time as this!
2006-10-22 15:17:44 · answer #6 · answered by Paradise 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The greatest event in my life was when God Saved Me.I had played
church all my life and God made Jesus real to me and I Received Him
by Faith as my Lord and savior.THE GREATEST EVENT PERIOD.
In Christ in LOve,
TJ57
2006-10-22 14:05:50 · answer #7 · answered by TJ 57 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Waking up and looking out my bedroom window to see the World Trade Center Towers fall
2006-10-22 14:01:27 · answer #8 · answered by a person 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My spiritual journey into the Kabalah...
Changed my life totally, changed my behavior, changed me.
All for the best 1 million %
I am on my path to enlightment at last .
2006-10-22 14:11:51 · answer #9 · answered by loulou777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No longer lying to my parents (or myself) and letting it be known that I was gay. (July 23, 1972). It was hard for everybody at first, but over the years the situation got better. No denying, however, that my parents' attitude changed toward me after that bit of news and it was never quite the same.
2006-10-22 14:04:01 · answer #10 · answered by crowbird_52 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋