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am95
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Let me start off by saying writing something like this is completely unlike me but today was the last straw and I had to ask SOMEBODY- am I crazy? I keep getting all these weird signs and feelings drawing to me to the Catholic church. (Sorry in advance about the length!)
I am 30 yrs old, never attended church as a child & not baptized. I would have considered myself agnostic/atheist
One day everything changed. As the EMTs were trying to save my 8 mo old son the thought literally entered my mind “Pray.” and then “Oh yah God’s going to save him, I haven’t prayed or believed my whole life and God’s listening now.” - I didn’t pray. My son passed away.
My 2 other children moved back in with my parents with for a while (I couldn’t stand being at the house where my son passed and was looking for a new house) My parents wanted me to talk to someone a psychiatrist , maybe go to church etc. I laughed. Church? Right.
At this point I was very depressed and had been having a few glasses of wine at night to help me sleep. So one night , after a few weeks the thought popped in my head “Go to church”. That was weird, but the urge was strong. I decided to look up churches, the only one I could think of in the area was something-Incarnation. I googled it, they had service the next morning (Wed). Anyway, I woke up early and went. I had no idea what was going on, I sat in the back and followed everyone else but it was soothing and peaceful. Later that evening I opened the fridge to have a glass of wine and saw a nun on the label of the wine. Funny coincidence.
I started going to mass for 2 weeks straight, reading apologetics, and “Something Other Than God” by Jennifer Fulwiler (again not realizing the Catholic thing). At this point I definitely now believed in God but had no idea about the church, Bible, etc.
This was really strange for me, I couldn’t believe that I was doing these things but I had this urge to find out more and felt so much better after mass.
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I am 30 yrs old, never attended church as a child & not baptized. I would have considered myself agnostic/atheist
One day everything changed. As the EMTs were trying to save my 8 mo old son the thought literally entered my mind “Pray.” and then “Oh yah God’s going to save him, I haven’t prayed or believed my whole life and God’s listening now.” - I didn’t pray. My son passed away.
My 2 other children moved back in with my parents with for a while (I couldn’t stand being at the house where my son passed and was looking for a new house) My parents wanted me to talk to someone a psychiatrist , maybe go to church etc. I laughed. Church? Right.
At this point I was very depressed and had been having a few glasses of wine at night to help me sleep. So one night , after a few weeks the thought popped in my head “Go to church”. That was weird, but the urge was strong. I decided to look up churches, the only one I could think of in the area was something-Incarnation. I googled it, they had service the next morning (Wed). Anyway, I woke up early and went. I had no idea what was going on, I sat in the back and followed everyone else but it was soothing and peaceful. Later that evening I opened the fridge to have a glass of wine and saw a nun on the label of the wine. Funny coincidence.
I started going to mass for 2 weeks straight, reading apologetics, and “Something Other Than God” by Jennifer Fulwiler (again not realizing the Catholic thing). At this point I definitely now believed in God but had no idea about the church, Bible, etc.
This was really strange for me, I couldn’t believe that I was doing these things but I had this urge to find out more and felt so much better after mass.
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