Zone1 Ever have a moment of stress and then you just sense that G-d is there for you and has your back?

[shockedcanadian]

Not a feeling I have had often or of late. Tonight though it just rushed over me. I was not in the middle of a dream, I was simply reading and it struck me.

It is really unique. Suddenly I felt extremely assured, confident. Protected even.

Sorry if it sounds peculiar, it was a sudden experience I felt like sharing to solicit other experiences from those who may have had similar experiences.

 

[Lockback]

No need to apologize. It doesn't seem peculiar at all. Many people have had that sensation.
I haven't yet. But that doesn't mean I won't.

 

[shockedcanadian]

No need to apologize. It doesn't seem peculiar at all. Many people have had that sensation.
I haven't yet. But that doesn't mean I won't.

Maybe you have but did not recognize it. I have in the past but it feels like it has been ages and each time it is unique to ones moment in their life. Comforting for that given moment.

 

[Correll]

Not a feeling I have had often or of late. Tonight though it just rushed over me. I was not in the middle of a dream, I was simply reading and it struck me.

It is really unique. Suddenly I felt extremely assured, confident. Protected even.

Sorry if it sounds peculiar, it was a sudden experience I felt like sharing to solicit other experiences from those who may have had similar experiences.

Yes.

 

[cnm]

Not a feeling I have had often or of late. Tonight though it just rushed over me. I was not in the middle of a dream, I was simply reading and it struck me.

It is really unique. Suddenly I felt extremely assured, confident. Protected even.

Sorry if it sounds peculiar, it was a sudden experience I felt like sharing to solicit other experiences from those who may have had similar experiences.

I wonder why that feeling is absent so often.

Gawd's love removed from sinners for ineffable reasons?

 

[White 6]

Not a feeling I have had often or of late. Tonight though it just rushed over me. I was not in the middle of a dream, I was simply reading and it struck me.

It is really unique. Suddenly I felt extremely assured, confident. Protected even.

Sorry if it sounds peculiar, it was a sudden experience I felt like sharing to solicit other experiences from those who may have had similar experiences.

Yes. Most believers probably have, or at least I hope they have. Sometimes, God not only give you peace, like a gift, to remind you God is there, but on occasion, actually intervenes as well as grants that peace, at the same time. That is truly amazing.

 

[sparky]

I've seen so many pass on......one can only hope for them......~S~

 

[SaxonJackson]

With me, it's more like this: I'll stress over something for days. Sometimes I might feel that God has abandoned me. I might worry myself to sleep then wake up worrying some more. Then, when I finally reach a solution to my problem, I come to the realization that God was with me the entire time and that I wasted my time worrying.

 

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

Now is this limited to just one religion or belief system, or is this true of people of different faiths?

 

[Meriweather]

Now is this limited to just one religion or belief system, or is this true of people of different faiths?

Seek and you will find. Cynicism keeps one from looking and finding. So does fear of disappointment that one won't find what one seeks--even fear that one will find it and then be called to a higher level.

This is true whether one is looking for God to have their back--and equally true for those looking for only one belief system or faith to have this. I am Catholic, my best friend Presbyterian. We both had experiences of God having our backs. I haven't looked, but if I do look for Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc. who have had this experience, I expect I would find them. And, by the way, I'm betting if I look for people of all faiths/denominations who have never had this experience, I would find them as well.

 

[Anathema]

Nope. If anything else it’s the total opposite…

Back in the days when God held sway in my life, every time the shit hit the fan and I looked around, God was lying on the ground laughing his ass off and going “Gotcha again…”

 

[Meriweather]

Nope. If anything else it’s the total opposite…

Back in the days when God held sway in my life, every time the shit hit the fan and I looked around, God was lying on the ground laughing his ass off and going “Gotcha again…”

A great example of people finding what they are looking for.

 

[Anathema]

A great example of people finding what they are looking for.

Considering it’s been my entire 27 year experience with your God ( before I got smart, gave him the middle finger and walked away), I’m not sure what else I would have expected.

 

[Meriweather]

Considering it’s been my entire 27 year experience with your God ( before I got smart, gave him the middle finger and walked away), I’m not sure what else I would have expected.

Yes. We all write our own stories, live that story we write. Your own story isn't over yet. You chose to write God out of it, and you can choose to write God back into it. During tough times, it helped me to remember Jesus' own story. One cannot get any lower than a brutal death. That was the action. The reaction: Resurrection and death defeated. At the many low points in my life, I look forward to how much higher life-point I will be raised up into when I have walked through that low with God as my guide. As Jesus did--and he is the Way.

 

[Anathema]

Yes. We all write our own stories, live that story we write. Your own story isn't over yet. You chose to write God out of it, and you can choose to write God back into it. During tough times, it helped me to remember Jesus' own story. One cannot get any lower than a brutal death. That was the action. The reaction: Resurrection and death defeated. At the many low points in my life, I look forward to how much higher life-point I will be raised up into when I have walked through that low with God as my guide. As Jesus did--and he is the Way.

He wrote himself out of the story at the moment of my conception when he chose to **** with my genetic code. He wrote himself out when he didn’t do the same with either of my brothers. He wrote himself out of my story when he refused to do anything to helppeitgrrvme or my father.

My dad wasn’t smart enough to give Him the middle finger, but I was. Especially after not a single cleric, oriest, pastor or holy man could answer the simple question of “Why?”. So I moved on.,I pulled back the curtain and saw what the wizard really was.

For the last 20 years I’ve accepted the way I now believe the world works. It’s ugly, unpleasant, messy and not PF rated, but it’s far more in conformity with reality than what I was taught for 27 years.

 

[Meriweather]

He wrote himself out of the story at the moment of my conception when he chose to **** with my genetic code. He wrote himself out when he didn’t do the same with either of my brothers. He wrote himself out of my story when he refused to do anything to helppeitgrrvme or my father.

My dad wasn’t smart enough to give Him the middle finger, but I was. Especially after not a single cleric, oriest, pastor or holy man could answer the simple question of “Why?”. So I moved on.,I pulled back the curtain and saw what the wizard really was.

For the last 20 years I’ve accepted the way I now believe the world works. It’s ugly, unpleasant, messy and not PF rated, but it’s far more in conformity with reality than what I was taught for 27 years.

A decision to turn one's back on discovering why, is a turning point in your story--not caring about the why. In my position I sometimes find myself working with special ed students. There is unbelievable beauty in some of their hard, difficult lives, beauty that "normal" can only hope to ever experience.

To believe one's true value lies in a genetic code must be a heavy cross to bear.

 

[ding]

Why?

Because the flesh is of no avail.

 

[Anathema]

A decision to turn one's back on discovering why, is a turning point in your story--not caring about the why. In my position I sometimes find myself working with special ed students. There is unbelievable beauty in some of their hard, difficult lives, beauty that "normal" can only hope to ever experience.

To believe one's true value lies in a genetic code must be a heavy cross to bear.

I don’t give a **** “why”. I’m not Job. I don’t reply “thank you sir, may I have another.” Every time I get screwed over.,”

So you should be familiar with the words Sturge Weber Syndrome. I’ve got it. Every classic symptom… the cranial calcification, the seizures, the glaucoma, the birthmark… but mine covers my entire face (ear to ear and from the corner of my lips over the crown of my skull- nice deep purple). Unfortunately I didn’t get the learning deficiencies or the mental health issues except for the anger management problems. So I understood all the snide comments, the insults, the degrading words as I was growing up. I knew why none of the girls wanted to date me. I was good enough to help them with their homework but not to dance with at the prom.

I’d have been better off born with the learning disabilities because no matter how much I accomplished in spite of my hardships it was never enough to overcome what they see on my face. The face that HE gave me.

 

[cnm]

Nope. If anything else it’s the total opposite…

Back in the days when God held sway in my life, every time the shit hit the fan and I looked around, God was lying on the ground laughing his ass off and going “Gotcha again…”

She does enjoy a joke as much as the next woman.

 

[Meriweather]

I don’t give a **** “why”. I’m not Job. I don’t reply “thank you sir, may I have another.” Every time I get screwed over.,”

So you should be familiar with the words Sturge Weber Syndrome. I’ve got it. Every classic symptom… the cranial calcification, the seizures, the glaucoma, the birthmark… but mine covers my entire face (ear to ear and from the corner of my lips over the crown of my skull- nice deep purple). Unfortunately I didn’t get the learning deficiencies or the mental health issues except for the anger management problems. So I understood all the snide comments, the insults, the degrading words as I was growing up. I knew why none of the girls wanted to date me. I was good enough to help them with their homework but not to dance with at the prom.

I’d have been better off born with the learning disabilities because no matter how much I accomplished in spite of my hardships it was never enough to overcome what they see on my face. The face that HE gave me.

Yes, growing up a (popular) student in the grade below me had this, so I never thought twice about it. Who knows if this is why one of our early teachers told us this story: Most of us are not graced with outward beauty. No one lives outside of themselves, but inside of him/herself, so work on inward beauty. Even the most beautiful/handsome, at some point in their lives, will realize outward beauty is fleeting so it is important to build a great supply of inward beauty which doesn't fade.

Perhaps it is just when you are thinking of religion that your inward bitterness surfaces?