Does anyone have a story of religion changing their lives?

Question

Please no fake storys or abstract miracles just real stories.

Answer 1

Yes, religion has made me realize how delusional humans really can be.

Answer 2

Yes, when I found Wicca. It was a life changing experience for me. It did not happen in over night. I started with reading every book I could lay my hands on. And then I met a women online. Actually my husband introduced us. But she changed my life. My teacher and High Priestess, Lady Terra Gazelle. She opened my eyes to the ways of the Goddess, and it was then that I felt like I had come home.

I found a quiet beauty peace and joy in my life I had never found in any of the other religions I had been a part of before.

I studied hard and learned slowly. To learn Wicca properly takes years. And I was willing to give this time to the Goddess and God. I began to notice the world around me as the seasons changed. Sights and sounds took on a new meaning. The earth was now my responsibility as well as being my home.

I learned about the past, the old ways, I noticed the color of the leaves on the trees, the movements of the animals, suddenly everything was alive and vibrant. And I was a part of it. The Goddess spoke to me in the quiet breezes of fall, in the sudden rains of spring, and in the gray skys of winter. The God spoke to me in the bright sun of each day. I listened to them both and found love beyond that I had ever known.

Now I spend several times a day in a loving open dialog with my Goddess and God. I rely upon their guidance and trust their ways. I teach others who wish to learn. I serve willingly. I am rewarded greatly for my efforts each day in the love and grace I find in my life.

I hope others find the same in the paths they chose. I have never been more at peace in my life.

Blessings, light and love,

Lady Aviana SnowWolfe

Answer 3

In the fall of 1964 I decided to do a no-no. A neighbor had told all of us kids, even their own, not to ride our bikes down their driveway, into the road. They where gone. All the leaves were off the trees, so I could see blocks away, and I listened too. Nothing was coming. So I pumped my bike and went the fasted I ever had. I was about 10 feet from the road when I realized that if I turned, I would fall and rip all the skin off the side of me, min.. If I stayed strait there was a ^ at he edge of the road, made of blacktop, that made sure cars did not go past there and fall down the hill. I would have hit the ^ and gone flying into the tops of trees and crash down from there; how many bones could be broken? I couldn't make up my mind, in so short a time, which was safer.
The next thing I knew a car was stopped right in fount of me. I hit its rear tire and my bike bent to the shape of an L. That car did not skid even one inch. It was suddenly there! Science could not explain this.
A neighbor was working in his back yard and came running over. He carried my L shaped bike home for me. As I walked only with a limp/bruise, starring at the sky/ looking towards God.
None of us ever drove down that driveway again. The other kids in fear of having a crash. Me, because would God rescue me again, if I was bad again?

Answer 4

Yes. My best friends' mom (yes, the apostrophe is in the correct place, they are twins) lost custody of them at 1 year of age. She was a junkie and an alcoholic. They're really not certain who their father is either. Their mom was about the last person you'd ever expect to see in a church unless it was her funeral. One day she managed to steal from the 'right' person, a ministers wife. Instead of turning her over to police, she took her in. She and her husband took care of her through detox, prayed over her, ministered to her. She left their home 6 months later, still not interested in religion, but she was clean and sober. One morning she wandered into a church (not the same one) looking for someone to talk to. The baptistry faced east, and had a stained glass cross. The sun was hitting it just at an angle to be at the center of the cross. She fell to her knees and prayed for the first time in her life. Little by little, her life began to change. She fought off her urges to return to drugs, began to deepen her relationship with her Creator, and even found a steady job. She reconciled her relationship with her parents (who had custody of her girls) and her children. That's been 15 years now. She's been clean and sober the entire time and is a wonderful mother and daughter and friend. I guess it wasn't religion exactly that changed her life, more like wonderful people acting on the tenets of their religion. But still an awesome story.

Answer 5

Yes. Religion caused my grandfather to tell my mother she was changing churches (still Christian though). That was just the last of many "shames" they made her feel for simply being human in her teenage life. It's not a lot of fun growing up with a teen mom with no self-esteem due to the rejection she felt from her parents for things not negative at all.

Answer 6

Not religion, but Jesus.
I was not raised in any faith, but I met Jesus one day in a genuine miraculous, life changing experience. I was healed of depression which was a big change, then I realised that I had to change my flirting ways if I was to save my marriage, it just felt wrong all of a sudden to have male friends and to put myself in a position of temptation.
It was the moment of conversion that changed me, like in the matrix when Neo comes out in the 'real' world and realises that the world he believed in had been a lie.

Answer 7

We worshiped God all my life and never asked for any thing of
God.whatever was given to our family we always thanked God.
When our son fell ill he had cancer we worshiped God day and night and went every where,Mosk,Church,Temple because we
respected all Religions.Our son passed away 6months ago.
I feel now that i was a bloody fool to believe in God.If god can not give you the only thing you asked for in your life,he can give you any thing.For me now God is a Delusion and a myth.
I can not trust this Fictional friend any more.Our young son
married last year and he was looking for married life and have some children.God let him down and there will be millions of people who has been let down by Delusional God.
God destroyed our sons and his wifes dreams.Surgeon told
us our sons cancer very rare and our son was not to blame
for his disease it was God given disease.Our son was only 28years old and he was healthy young man who looked after
his health.These God believers will only under stand God
completely when their loved ones are on death bed and God
would not help them when they need his help.Every body loved our son because he was wonder full person,who like
to help every body he knew that person or not.Gods name look like a poison to me.

Answer 8

Ask the good people of New York how religion changed their lives.

Ask the people of Belfast and Northern Ireland how religion changed their lives

Ask the Palestinians how religion changed their lives

Ask the people or Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

A long list of religion turning peoples' lives to tradegy, horror, murder, terror, fear, and war

Get religion, santicfy murder!

Answer 9

I have had many personal experiences that have helped me remember my connection to God. Rather than go into something that was specific for me, I would simply say that by giving out Love, hope, friendship, good energy, doing the best you can do each moment has many, many rewards.

Love God, Love Others, Love Yourself

Answer 10

Yes,when i was lost without God I did not care what I
said or what I done,I was blind but now I see,since being
saved and got right in the sight of God I care what I say
and how I act and know without a doubt I,m Heaven bound.