what is one moment that has caused a shift in your life/ perspective?

Question

Everyday thinigs can sometimes cause us to see things in a new light. Has God sent you message? Perhaps a moment of grief or happiness has shown you more than just what appeared at the surface. I would like to know if you have ever had such a moment. My moment? I can't ask without telling mine. I would have to say the moment I was told my dad had died in his sleep of a massive heart attack.

Answer 1

Up until 1974, I would consider myself an agnostic - Agnostics claim either that it is not possible to have absolute or certain knowledge of God or gods; or, alternatively, that while certainty may be possible, they personally have no knowledge. Agnosticism in both cases involves some form of skepticism.
Then in 1974, about a year after I got out of the military (4 years during the Viet Nam Era and not a scratch) I was working working on a construction crew - we were building a golf course. Anyway, one Saturday, I had just hosed off a tractor and was ready to put it in a garage and call it a day. Just as I started it, the transmission malfunctioned and threw itself into reverse. It just so happened I was hosing it off right next to a river with a 25 foot 45 degree embankment leading down into the river. The tractor was only about a foot from the edge and I went over the edge. It picked up a lot of speed going down the incline, until the bottom. I tried to push myself off of the thing, and I cleared the PTO and spinning blade attached to it. I hit the river flat on my back - and when I looked up - Here comes the tractor. It landed on my head and shoulder area and took me straight to the bottom of the river. It was on top of my head which I was able to lever out, but my arm was really stuck under it. I was running out of air, so I 'sucked it up' and yanked as hard as I could. And I got free. I swam 25 feet back to the surface, climbed up the 25 foot river bank and got to the river edge. I looked at my arm and it was filleted. A huge chunk of muscle was missing out of my forearm, the other side of my forearm had been sliced and it was just hanging open. My face was pretty well split open, My face was like a jigsaw puzzle. Blood was gushing everywhere, some teeth were missing. One guy I worked with grabbed me by my shirt and threw me into his truck. He took me to the emergency room. About 200 stitches in my arm and later and my face bones were stiched up with stainless steel wire. I was disabled for about a year.
It was then I was no longer an agnostic.
That was when I had become completely convinced that in no way is there some sort of god or gods who created us or the universe.

Answer 2

I have been studying martial arts for years. I had an experience where a person was attacking me with intent to kill me. I tried all the things I had learn over the years, thinking that I could stop this person and that I had control over the outcome this event. Yet blow after blow landed on me and there was a clear understanding that I was losing, and there was nothing I could do about it. So in my mind I gave up. I didn't give up the fight, but I gave up the idea that I could save myself. I had a moment of pure clarity where I realized that I really had little affect on the outcome of anything and surrendered to the idea that if my Creator wants me to die today, there is nothing I can do about it. I kept fighting, but I no longer cared if I lived or died, but that whatever was about to happen was what was meant to be. It was at this moment that, for reasons I still don't understand, that the fight turned my way and that I was almost watching my body do exactly what needed to be done. I won that fight that day, but I don't feel that I won it, but that because I trusted I my Creator and that my Creator knows best I was given the gift of life. Not the same life I had before, but true life.

Answer 3

When I became saved, I had a spiritual expereinces. I got to visit heaven. I don't care that there are people who wouldn't believe it, it happened to me while I was alone, so I would expect some distrust to what I say. I didn't see God there, but there were hills in the way, or I think that He was in another part of heaven.

That changed me around. The sustained relationship that God and I have continued through the years. If I was crazy, then I wouldn't have gotten better about suicide. I don't seek to end my own life anymore. And other things as well in my life have changed for the better. That's not the typical thing for a crazy person who was once very destructive to himself to experience.

Answer 4

I got a text message from someone claiming to be god. The text message said to log on this web site. So, I logged on and then all the pop-ups starting coming up; one after the other after the other. Anyway, long story short, that was a week ago and now my computer runs so slow, it took 20 minutes to type up until the word "text" in the first sentence. Yes, god, has "shifted" my life but I want my computer memory back please!

Answer 5

As corny as this sounds, my first kiss was the biggest one I've ever had, looking into someone else's eyes and feeling a sort of absolute completeness changed me quite a bit in an instant when most things really don't phase me... Epiphanies ephemeral when I encounter them, I'll know I had one, and it will change things slightly, but then after the fact I won't remember what exactly it was, kind of like a dream.

Answer 6

Someone I have known most of my life says to me "nothing you say or do can ever change the way I feel about you". That statement gave me the courage to start asking questions again which eventually led to my uncovering a self destructive decision I had made when very young. That led to a search for what to do about it.

Answer 7

The birth of my identical twin girls after trying to get pregnant for 10 years, gifts from God

Answer 8

I went in my room and felt so bad and I felt like the whole world was on my shoulders .I said from my heart Jesus I am a sinner please forgive my sins and come into my heart and BAM Jesus filled me with so much love and peace I could not believe someone loved me that much.I said Its JESUS its JESUS HE saved me.

Answer 9

the moment i met my spiritual master,who initiated divinity resting within me and i happened to experience the real truth within myself.

Answer 10

chemical induction and failed romance.... two separate things.

I should probably mention the many initiations I've received.