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Date Posted: 15:51:14 07/24/02 Wed
Author: Susan
Subject: Re: God/the afterlife
In reply to: Appy20 's message, "Re: God/the afterlife" on 06:02:25 07/24/02 Wed

>>Susan, Annie:
>>
>>My thoughts on an afterlife and God
>
>I have never had any psychic experiences. I have not
>had anyone close to me who has died. I have no
>experiences whatsoever with the afterlife. No near
>death experiences exactly just reassurances in times
>of crisis.
>
>When I was a child, I was close to God. Then my
>teenage years were a nightmare. I a was assaulted by
>a constant stream of personal inadequacies that I
>could not deal with gracefully. So much of my life, I
>have felt blatantly inept to handle the challenges
>life has presented to me. For a while, in my late
>teens, I was an atheist and then became agnostic. I
>was quite bitter during those times. Lots of hard
>times. However, the fact remains when I am in dire
>straits and have done all that I can do, I will pray
>and help will arrive. Solutions do not come until I
>pray. Yes, intellectually, I tended to rationalize my
>experiences but they are so numerous that I no longer
>can just ignore them. I really am a skeptical person
>but repeated experiences have influenced my stubborn
>intellect. Eventually, I fell in love with God and
>felt loved by Him and my bitterness disappeared. I
>weather things better now.
>
>I know what Gnossis means about once thinking God is
>for losers. That may be true. For most of my life, I
>have felt like a loser but in spite of it all, through
>prayer, I have overcome a lot of personal
>shortcomings, bad genes, bad decisions and less than
>perfect luck. However, I like myself and consider
>myself okay with the universe. I ended up in a better
>place than many who were more gifted and fortunate
>than I. All the battering from life during my early
>years has had a calming and strengthening effect on my
>present life. That may be the ultimate proof that
>there is a God.
Faye,
Thank you so much for sharing your story. There seems to be a bit of a common thread among those of us in this discussion group...disillusionment earlier in life. But it's interesting that we have all seemingly become serious spiritual seekers, in spite of things. I have to tell you...since I posted that question last week or the week before (whenever it was), I have had the most amazing experience that has renewed my belief about God. It has changed, though! I still don't know about the after life, previous lives, etc, etc, but I do think, now, that anything is possible!

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