What has led you down this path life has taken you? Do you ever marvel at the twists and turns of fate?

Answer 1

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 2

INTERESTING QUESTION! MARVEL INDEED.....WOW, I NEVER SAW THAT COMING! OF COURSE NOT.....WE CAN'T SEE INTO THE FUTURE YET. WELL, I CAN THANKS TO MY CRYSTAL BALL.....KIDDING!

I FIRMLY BELIEVE THINGS THAT HAPPEN ARE IN GOD'S PLAN. NON BELIEVERS....IF THAT OFFENDS YOU....SORRY ABOUT YOUR LUCK. THE FREE WILL WE WERE GIVEN IS WHAT MAKES THE WHOLE ISSUE SO COMPLEX. WE MAKE OUR CHOICES AND DECISIONS BASED UPON OUR CORE BELIEFS AND EXPECTATIONS OF OUTCOMES BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCES. SO BASICALLY WE CREATE OUR OWN TWISTS AND TURNS, THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE PART OF GOD'S PLAN. AN OPPORTUNITY IS PUT BEFORE US, AND IF WE CHOOSE NOT TO EMBRACE IT, WELL, THE OUTCOME MAY NOT BE THE DESIRABLE ONE. SOMEONE IS INSERTED INTO OUR LIVES FOR A PURPOSE. WE CHOOSE TO EXPLORE THAT PURPOSE OR SNUB OUR NOSE AT THAT PERSON AND CREATE A DIFFERENT CHAIN OF EVENTS THAN WHAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. I DO BELIEVE THERE ARE LIVING ANGLES SENT TO GUIDE US....
PATHFINDERS IF YOU WILL.....PEOPLE WHO RECOGNIZE WE ARE OFF OUR "PATH" AND ASSIST US IN FINDING OUR WAY BACK. IF WE IGNORE THAT PERSON, THEN WE OF COURSE CONTINUE DOING LIFE WITH THE CARDS WE WE DEALT AS SOME MIGHT SAY. NO, IT ISN'T ABOUT THE CARDS WE WERE DEALT, OR THE LUCK OF THE DRAW. IT'S ABOUT HOW WE PLAY THE CARDS. I THINK WE ARE ALL DEALT POTENTIALLY WINNING HANDS, BUT SOMETIMES WE FOLD WHEN WE SHOULD PLAY IT OUT, AND SOMETIMES WE PLAY IT OUT WHEN WE SHOULD FOLD. THEN WE COME AROUND THE NEXT TURN AND SAY....MAN....THIS BITES.....WHY IS GOD LETTING THIS HAPPEN TO ME? DID HE? OR WERE WE INFLUENCED BY THE "OTHER GUY"?

YES, I MARVEL AT IT ALL THE TIME.....AND PONDER OVER WHAT MIGHT BE IF I HAD TAKEN THE OTHER PATH. IF I HAD MARRIED SO AND SO, WHAT WOULD MY KIDS BE LIKE? WHAT WOULD MY LIFE LOOK LIKE? WHAT IS GOD TRYING TO TELL ME HERE, AND IS IT HIS WILL OR MINE? FREE WILL. IT CAN BE OUR FRIEND OR OUR ENEMY, AND IT CERTAINLY HAS DETERMINED WHO I AM TODAY AND THE PATH I AM ON.

Answer 3

~ The Lord has set paths before me... many have I taken that were not directed by Him that caused me to fail...

~ The experience gained from childhood... military... government positions... retail positions... multi-level marketing plans... audio/video/electrical experience... leading to a climax in my Golden Years, which appears to guide me into the production of Christian Worship Music Video's with a new format in presentation, selections, languages, and training materials...

~ Having gone from Christian Science to Non-Denominational to Protistant to Catholic and lastly in 1997 to Born Again Believer/Christian has blessed me so very much...

~ Sharing the Gospel Message at home and abroad has been an awesome experience... I know the Lord is working on this too...

~ I't not that I marvel at the 'twists and turns of fate", but at how the Lord continues to carry me... even when I'm hurting the most being away from Him... and lets me know that I am His... that my name is indeed written in the Lambs Book of Life...

Answer 4

Living life on life's terms is hard.
Look at it like a card game.
Some of us are dealt a bad hand. Some get a hand full of Aces from the jump. Today I try to play the cards I am given instead of wasting time worrying about what cards others are holding. Just don't fold to soon and take some risks if you want to win big! Keep your poker face on!

Answer 5

what has led me down this path??? humm,,, i would say first it was with my children,,wonderful path,,then comes the twist and turn,,hmmm that would be the butt head that almost killed my husband ,and injured my 3rd son and myself,,marvel at it,,hmmm not yet,,mabe when i get my big black harley boots on and kick the son of a b**ch a few blocks,,yuppp im thinking that will probley make me marvel at the twist and turns,, i dont hate himmm,,i just dont like him to much,,,,i want him to share in the marvlous pain he has inflicked on my path ,,,

Answer 6

Marvel is not the word--- more like despair. Misfortune, pure and simple.

Answer 7

I just take each day as it comes and try and enjoy it , some days are good some are bad but i'm living and breathing and loving !

Answer 8

Myself,,, Yes,,,


BUT...
............. i still think and strongly believe ( i dont know if anybody will agree on me on this ), that man's fate and destiny is already written and that includes all his free will choices..... in between of his birth and of his death...

Maybe im wrong, maybe im right...


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Answer 9

God has lead me-though I have made some bad choices-God has led me out of them.