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| when in your life have you felt especially close to God or Spirit?
Posted: 8/22/2008 1:51:22 PM | When I was 11 years old, I had an experience which I can best describe in retrospect as "oneness." I had been out walking alone in the hills near my house, wondering about life, my place in it, and whether or not "God" existed, and if so, how should I live. Strange kid, perhaps, but it was important to me to know what I was supposed to do with the one life I had. My Aunt Louise died of leukemia while I was in 1st grade, and my best friend died during the summer before second grade, also of leukemia. I wasn't really sure how much time I had. I was in Catholic school, but had already rejected all Catholic teachings which went against love.
Anyway, I came home feeling like I had made an important decision, and I felt like it was made in communion with something (God?) much greater than myself. As I walked upstairs, I saw my brother trying to unlock a combination lock he had found. It had four wheels, each numbered 1 to 6. He had started at 6-6-6-6, and was down to 6-4-something-something.
I felt full of light, full of love, and I told him that if he gave me his lock for a minute, I would unlock it for him. I went to my room, closed the door, and dropped to my knees. I asked for something very simple - If I (it actually felt more like "we") have made the right decision, let me unlock this lock. I turned the dials, immediately opened the lock, and returned it to my brother, all in about 20 seonds.
Did I feel "close to God?" No, I would say it was like I was "filled with God" - maybe even "part of God."
This feeling of "oneness" has filled me many times in my life, and has always rewarded me greatly. Each time I have asked, I have received. I have never felt that I was testing my "faith," but merely enjoying its fruits.
thoughtful76 said
There was nothing in and of myself during that moment.
I think thoughtful76 gives himself too little credit, in this one way - it was he who let the "oneness" in, and he who wielded the power of the light that had filled his heart.
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| when in your life have you felt especially close to God or Spirit?
Posted: 8/23/2008 3:15:02 AM | ^^thank you for sharing and I totally agree with your honoring thoughtful76's words in that line - it was the essence of his post and his truth....it is truth.
gratitude to all the posts. found these words from homeinportage especially true for me too....
"...dark night of the soul, when the last tear falls, that is when I listen. " | |
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Posted: 9/25/2008 6:45:45 PM | I feel blessed to have come across this thread. I am not going to write much at this moment but I have a lot of insprirational testimonies of my own.  I crossed this thread in anger that they had taken Religion and the Supernatural off of the main Forum page. I think it is a shame. It should be a corner stone and a main topic that you should not have to search for. 
This is an excellent idea OP and God bless you for it. If you don't mind, I will probably be on here quite often, expressing how God has touched me in my daily walk. I can give a quick example. To everyone else it may sound funny but to me it is called confirmation. Evidence that they Holy Spirit is walking with me in a very daily and personal way.
I was watching my telivised church program like always. This time I was struggleing with stife in my relationship with my grandmother. The pastors wife was sharing,how God lets her know that he is there, in a quirky way. This quirky way is that, he presents her with a dime (coin) in odd places all of the time, to let her know that he is present.
The same evening, I walked into the living room, and saw that my grandmother was reclined in her chair. Not much different from any other night except for the fact that there was a dime up under her chair.
Yes, to some this may seem like coincidence, but I know it was the comforter. The Holy Spirit telling me that everything was going to be ok with the situation. I had prayed, with the pastor's wife as she prayed on television, about my grandmother. It was not, but a few hours later on that day that I saw it, the coin. I also just realised that the first four letters in coincicendce are coin.
See, to me it does not matter what people think of what I have just said, because I know when I feel the presence of God. God can do small and quirky as much as he can do great and large! He is after all the God of all possibilities! It is always awesome to me, the ways in which he personaly connects, to me in my life. It just reminds me, that out of the sea of happenings, I am still important to him. Oh, and the feeling that comes from such connected divinity, is beyond description. It is also wonderful to know that God has a sense of humor. I feel at times like these that he is telling me a secret. One that is special, unique, and owned only by him and I.
God bless everyone and I look forward to keeping track of this thread. I hope all of you have the privelage to feel in a way that words just cannot describe. That is its own bit of heaven given to you. | |
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Posted: 9/26/2008 1:36:48 AM | ^^Thank you. I had forgotten this thread was here also....for much has happened since last writing here. And of course I agree it is and was a sad day for many of us when this forum topic and the political and current events forums also were wiped off the main forum home page. I just pray they continue to be accessible - at least they are for now. I will be sad should the day come all the posts are not....but no need to think about that now, and in fact I'm a bit superstitious in the way that I believe if enough thought energy is held on something it can actually make it manifest.....so I'm changing the subject!!
Again, thank you now for sharing your dime story and even for noticing coincidence has the word coin in it. It sounds to me like you would be ripe and ready to read without feeling they are blasphemy the 'Conversation with God' books. It was a series of 8 books in total, the first three being the most well known.....but the partnership of God and Neale Walsch (even though many say Neale's ego shows too much:).....I found those books unblocked something in me really indescribable....I dared to finally let myself believe in God, not so much in a religious way, nor not in a religious way - but in the way I had been taught to feel through spiritual 'work'......this eternal and divine connection, whether one calls it energy or love or light or spirit, etc.....as I was taught through spiritual work after my religious upbringing that I had left....'God is eternal, is in all of us, is in everything, is one without second.' (copyright the 'Declaration of Unity' from Arica Institute, founder Oscar Ichazo).....
Anyway, it was on practically each page of reading those books and really just focusing on the passages from the 'big guy' that I found I dared let the blockage go that had been with me all my life. And it happened naturally because the words coming from 'Him' were so beautifully and cleverly written and just resonated as truth in me, over and over and over again. And you will see that those 'coincidences' you notice in the english language are not just coincidences at all, but very clever wit that formed them.....and humour!
So I urge you to look into those books. please. I know I will return to them....perhaps it's time now. Just gotta get the boxes of tissues ready for being touched so deeply as I was reading them...the tears just flowed and flowed and it felt such a blessing. | |
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| when in your life have you felt especially close to God or Spirit?
Posted: 10/4/2008 5:00:53 PM | About an hour ago.
I was crying and attempting not to hyperventilate while holding vomit down. I lost my best friend and wife just over a month ago and a friend of ours made a big "In rememberance video" which I started to watch for the first time about 90 minutes ago.
It was physically too much for me. I remember thinking "I thought I was gonna make it through this... I guess I was wrong."
The thought really freaked me out because I was sure that I could handle this as I've lost alot of people I love including both parents and both sets of grandparents. And it wasn't like we didn't see it coming. I don't think anything went unsaid and I know she is no longer suffering. All this should make it so that I can deal with it so when all of the sudden, I couldn't... I felt like it was time up for me... I had finally hit that paradox with no solution... I was finished.
I prayed for help. When I pray, I pray to all who have passed and all that are to come. I prayed to all my loved ones in the darkness of my mind. I meditated on how I remembered each of their faces and asked them to please guide her and who am I kidding? To guide me as well.
Then two things happened. I saw this thread and half way through, the phone rang. It was her young friend (who absolutely adored Su) saying she was ready to come and get a share of the ashes we promised her. She must have gotten the video too, but something clicked as I was talking to her.
I have the majority of the ashes kept but I think it's time to sprinkle the rest of what she wants sprinkled.
Thank you WeAre1 and everyone else. Everything together was quite moving. I haven't been to this site for a bit so it was out of the blue that I came here and the "place" your posts put me in played rather harmoniously with the events going on. | |
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Posted: 10/4/2008 7:21:01 PM | Stones.I am glad you found this thread when you needed it the most. The Creator does answer and gives us what we need doesnt he???????
If this helps you in any way to find closure then Praises to the Great Spirit for sending you this blessing.
PEACE pretty moon | |
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| when in your life have you felt especially close to God or Spirit?
Posted: 10/8/2008 5:18:21 PM | is it by chance i just realized pretty moon had written here and eager to see why, i found your post, stone....thank you so much for sharing it....your words touch me deeply.....not coincidentally, i'm sure, on the eve and night of the one jewish holiday where spirit speaks to me.....as i wrote a little while ago tonight on the poetry tanka thread.....
may our hurts be healed
and all our sins forgiven
day of atonement
begins tonight at sunset
feel reaching the land and all
 for you and pretty moon! | |
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