Have You Ever Been Truly In Awe Of God Almighty?

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Every once in a while, ok more than once in a while, I LOVE to hear people’s stories about the moments that they were absolutely struck in AWE of God. I think that it stregthens our faith in God to hear about what He has done that just knocks us off of our feet!👍

So tell me, have you ever been truly in AWE of God Almighty?

When?

Why?

Tell us your incredible story!
 
I don’t think I have ever had a time once I was old enough to begin to think about who God is that I have not been in complete awe of God in the old fashioned sense of fear of the Lord.
 
Since my gorgeous nieces and nephews have come into the world I’ve had a deeper appreciation of the miracle of creation - that life forms and grows where previously there had been none.

OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD! :bowdown:
 
When I put my faith in God and pray that His will be done rather than what I want, the miracle is always greater than I ever expected.

:signofcross: This has happened a number of times. These are the moments that make me speechless with emotion over our Awesome God.
 
Nearly every single day! Sometimes I catch myself shaking my head (like some kind of fool bobble-head doll!) because I am so struck by His obvious and glorious presence in the world.
 
Singinbeauty said:
Every once in a while, ok more than once in a while, I LOVE to hear people’s stories about the moments that they were absolutely struck in AWE of God. I think that it stregthens our faith in God to hear about what He has done that just knocks us off of our feet!👍

So tell me, have you ever been truly in AWE of God Almighty?

When?

Why?

Tell us your incredible story!
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One day when I was 27 (now 43) laying on my bed flipping the TV
and I came across a preacher I don’t even remember what he said, but like what he said about Jesus.The next thing I know is
some kind of Sparky light made out love and Holiness pinned me to the bed with a G-force that was out of this world. From that Day
on I was a True believer in God’s power and Love. I short time
later I stumbled on a little book my Dad had call, The Pieta Prayer Book after reading it one time, I knew I had to go back to the Catholic Church, that I had rejected all my life, this is it:
angelfire.com/ca3/rafaelmarie/ThePieta/bstbridgetprayers.html
 
In my dreams when I can sometimes recall…I am standing in the Presence…it is as a glowing light.completely surrounding and enveloping me…the overwhelming feeling is love…I want to be there forever and give praise…

this is sort of what it is but words do not really describe the Vision, and it might seem really corny to you the reader…I think at the end of the day…it is like being at Mass but better .
 
Yes, all the time.

It often happens in Church, especially during congregational singing.

I’ve had lots of little revelations throughout my life, times when the veil between God and myself seems thinner. I remember a time when I was sitting on our deck in North Carolina breast-feeding my second daughter while my first daughter was running around the yard. It all seemed so heavenly , so “perfect.”

Often in adoration, I catch a glimpse of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament not as humble Bread, but as the Ancient of Days described in Revelation 1: 14-18.

There is a wonderful scene in the book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin when little Evangeline is about to die. (I named my daughter after her, BTW.) Uncle Tom is sitting by her bedside, and tells people that when the Lord takes her home, he hopes to catch a glimpse of the glory.

I believe those glimpses of God’s glory are there for us, but we have to sit and wait for them, perhaps in the presence of the dying, even as Uncle Tom did.
 
I’ve experienced it when all things are quiet and I look at the night sky and its arrayed beauty. We live as a speck of dust in a galaxy of 500 billion stars (and probably as many planets if extrasolar planet discoveries go by) and even that is only the edge of a great cosmic ocean of galaxies and even multiple universes.

The Trinity is always at work, which is why Maximus Confessor’s statements about the more one contemplates reality and the glory of God mirrored in it as if a great light has become visible to our senses, we get a sense of the infinite depth of God’s majesty and love and mercy towards us and creation.
 
Singinbeauty said:
Every once in a while, ok more than once in a while, I LOVE to hear people’s stories about the moments that they were absolutely struck in AWE of God. I think that it stregthens our faith in God to hear about what He has done that just knocks us off of our feet!👍

So tell me, have you ever been truly in AWE of God Almighty?

When?

Why?

Tell us your incredible story!
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Whenever I read the Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas.
 
early in the morning on december 17th of last year, when i was outside watching a sunrise 3 hours after the birth of my daughter…

a cardinal landed at my feet and sang for a minute or two

it was a good day. I felt Gods presence…
 
For a short time before I entered the Church, I made a habit of getting up early to attend 6 AM daily Mass at my parish.

One day, our oldest senior priest (we’ve just celebrated his 90th birthday not long ago) was celebrating Mass, and was suffering the effects of asthma. At one point, right before the consecration, his breathing was so labored that the altar server asked whether he’d like to find another priest to complete the Mass. Fr. waved him off rather dismissively and with obvious irritation. Fr. regained his breath and continued on with the words of consecration. At the moment he uttered the words, “This is My Body,” his voice cleared up and his breathing was restored to normal, and the look of deep love and admiration on his face as he spoke the words gave me the most profound sense of God’s presence I’ve ever felt. Instantly I felt as though everyone else in the church, except for myself, Fr. and our eucharistic Lord, had been removed. It was the only time in over 13 years of church attendance that I had been moved to tears.
 
Singinbeauty said:
Every once in a while, ok more than once in a while, I LOVE to hear people’s stories about the moments that they were absolutely struck in AWE of God. I think that it stregthens our faith in God to hear about what He has done that just knocks us off of our feet!👍

So tell me, have you ever been truly in AWE of God Almighty?

When?

Why?

Tell us your incredible story!
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I cried like baby one time in my adulthood when I realized Jesus in a lepper when I was praying at a Praise and Worship group. yes, I was not even able to stand on my knees.

Please have a look at: nguoicui.net/gallery/

That was a starting point of my conversion - not from Protestant to Catholic, but from Catholic to Catholic 🙂 .
 
I got the hair-standing-on-end shivers when meditating on the Ascension last week, when I realized that when I receive Our Lord in the Eucharist, in order for him to be at home in me, I need to be Heaven. :bigyikes:
 
When my six-year-old looked up at the night sky and asked whether God is infinite like the sky and I replied yes and he said,
“then I choose Him.”

My heart could have burst with happiness, since it took me thirty years to come up with the same thing.
 
Many times throughtout my life.

Most recently, when He spoke to me interiorly. It wasn’t even the fact that He spoke to me (which sounds odd, I know) … but that He refered to me as His daughter. In all my 42 years of life calling out to my Father in Heaven, it never struck me that I was really His daughter. I always saw that relationship from the 'bottom up", so to speak. I focused on Him being my Father. Guess I never really saw it the other way. Of course, I had heard it countless times, in a 1/2 brained way … but the reality of it literally overwhelmed me. I cried for two days.
 
Wow, such awesome and inspiring stuff ain’t it?

I remember a VERY vivid dream that I had one night. My youth group and I (I was in high school at the time and I can still remember the dream) were in a field or meadow and I looked up at the sky to see clouds in the form of a hand outstretched over us. It wasn’t menacing and when I awoke I just shivered because I could totally feel the peace of God and that He was protecting us. It was awesome!

Another time, a few years back I was in such a horrible state of depression. I was on the verge of accepting the fact that I may have to end my life. I saw myself in such a deplorable way that haunts me even to this day. I remember one particular night I was weeping in my bathroom, not just crying but weeping, and asking God to just end it because I just couldn’t handle it anymore. I felt so weak and had so much pain in my heart that I saw myself as worthless. But then something inside of me stirred and I looked up and said ‘Satan, go away. You can’t have me because I belong to God!’ A feeling of peace began to sink in and I had this thought jump into my head. I remember thinking that I need to stop seeing myself in the imperfect mirror that Satan keeps giving me and looking at the mirror that God is holding up. The mirror that Christ’s sacrifice made. I am beautiful in God’s eyes. If I could just look at myself with that mirror everyday I know I can survive. Now, the healing didn’t happen overnight and it definitely isn’t cured but whenever that ‘girl’ tries to peek her head out I just push her aside and repeat that God loves me and so does my family. Satan cannot convince me otherwise so he might as well stop.
 
yes. throughout the day even doing ordinary things, i ponder upon the Eucharist. God being really present here on earth.
 
Today. Suffering some depression, having anxiety about my college class on economics, husband hurt my feelings, parents are fighting over something trivial (and I was trying to help them resolve it)…

…I go to a college meeting, and at the end, one of the students and I were talking, and the conversation turned to our Lord Jesus Christ and our Catholic faith. I knew this person for some time, but didn’t realize how devoted to Christ, the Blessed Virgin, and the Church he was until tonight. For some reason, learning that someone I associate with in this crazy secular world of ours who has the same love, zeal, and devotion to the Faith as I do is very, very comforting to me and it helped me get back into a truer perspective of things.

As got in my car tonight, I paused, looked up, and said, “You did this, Lord, didn’t you. I thank You and praise You forever!”

God Bless.
 
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