Maybe it didn't change your life, but an experience you'll never forget, one that you lean on and remember when times aren't so good. What was it like? Where were you? What were you doing? How did you feel? And how does it help you even now?
2007-02-11 13:06:38 · 9 answers · asked by rabid_scientist 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
For reason's that would take pages and pages to explain I believe in God. I know that He's there. But sometimes I have a hard time with organised religion because of the people who run the churches and the judgement and criticism and prejudice that goes on but is preached against.
Anyway I've been a little inactive in my church lately, not because of God but because I've felt like a failure, like it's my fault for a lot of things that are going on in my life.
About a week ago I was lying in my bed and thinking of my little brother (he's adopted and 5 yrs. old, I'm 22) and how much I love him. Recently we found out he was molested by my father and we've been going through hell.
Anyway, I was just laying there and thinking about how much I adored this little boy and how I wanted to protect him from the rest of the world and how I wanted to take care of my family. I started to pray and I literally couldn't get the words out.
It took a half hour to start my prayer, just to start. When I finally finished I felt a sense of peace and love overcome me.
I don't care what religion someone is but there is a Divine Creator and He loves His children.
I felt it then and that is something that I'll NEVER be able to deny no matter how hard times get.
I know it seems simple, but you had to feel it.
2007-02-11 13:16:12 · answer #1 · answered by flutterby 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1) Yes.
2) Awesome.
3) In a hospital room, and at Mass one month later.
4) The Sacrament of Holy Unction and the Holy Eucharist for a 12-year-old girl in a coma from a horse crash. I anointed her and prayed daily for 30 days. On day 30, we celebrated a Healing Mass at Noon. At 12:30 I had a vision that she would be O.K. I told everybody present (about a dozen people) The nurses told us that she woke up at exactly 12:30.
5) I will never forget it. She is 24 now, out of college and has a career in advertising. Her accident happened the day after I was ordained to the Priesthood.
2007-02-11 13:12:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had traveled to Las Vegas for the first time just to see what the hype was. I found that Utah was just a couple of hours away and since I had never been there, I jumped in the car and hit the highway. I found Zion's National Park and drove through it. I had seen the Grand Canyon but it just wasn't the same. I watched as the sun set in the park. It was so beautiful. I loved the mountains, the trees, the streams. I didn't know how to express how wonderful it was. I live near lakes right now and I don't like it. I am tired of being around the water. I guess I'm not a water "sign." I am planning a move to an area closer to the mountains. That move is scary but I think its time to take that jump. I know its a positive move. That was nice to relive. Thanks for asking!
2007-02-11 13:17:24 · answer #3 · answered by LA Law 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My life was completely changed over 36 years ago by the power of God. It was after a time when I was embittered against God and told Him to get out of my life. He did - for a while. For months I plunged into the depths of hopelessness and despair, but refused to ask God's help until He repented. (see Proverbs 19:3)
I went so low, I came home one day, fell on my face and started crying, when a voice spoke into my heart these words:
"Maybe Jesus really did die for your sins."
Immediately a flood of light and love and peace and hope and a sense of acceptance and forgiveness and understanding drove out the darkness and hopelessness and meaninglessness that had possessed me. I felt like I was lifted from the lowest pit to the highest mountaintop, and for the first time in my life, it all made sense. I had heard the Gospel before, but for the first time I believed in my heart, and I realized God was really so good that He has suffered in my place so that I could be forgiven. I did not even know such a thing was possible. I was raised Catholic, and I never heard of anyone having this experience. It was a year later when I read the Bible in John's Gospel, chapter 3, that I realized what had happened to me was that I was born again. I have never stopped loving Him since that day.
2007-02-11 13:19:51 · answer #4 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I had an experience in deep meditation that sits in the center of my stomach like a ball of molten metal. I don't forget because I can't, and I have tried. It drives me to get further, in the hopes that the sense of separation from that whioleness will leave. I do not know if it is a curse or a treasure, but it is there. It has given me insight, and left me with difficulty relating to the ordinary world. Lonely is the best word for my life.
2007-02-11 13:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
one time we hat a flat tire on the side of the interstate and I was 5 and my brother was 10, so none of us my mom my brother or me knew how to fix it all of a sudden a guy appears out of no where. he said he saw us from the overpass from the bp station well there was no bp station any way he fixed the tire for us and when we turned around to thank him he was gone.
now that is what you call an angel
2007-02-11 13:11:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Oh, you said spiritual experience. Never mind.
2007-02-11 13:22:54 · answer #7 · answered by Devil in Details 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. It's called the avatar course, it is profound and amazing. its tools to help you deal with stuff. visit avatarepc.org.
2007-02-11 13:10:58 · answer #8 · answered by Mikkey 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, i did, i just can't explain that experience, but i will tell you went think God do exist and Jesus is for real.
2007-02-11 13:14:33 · answer #9 · answered by celi 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋