Do you have a profound and beautiful religious/spiritual experience to share with us?

Yes I do. When I was 13 years old my father died. I talked to him on the phone 30 min. before he passed. Well he was a little angry with me at the time. So at the end of the conversation he hung up the phone before I could say bye and that I loved him. I was in Texas he was in Tennessee. The next morning the police was at my house and told us that he had died. That turned my world upside-down. I lost my way and by the time I was 15 years old I was on pot ,pills, getting drunk. I was trying to kill the pain of looseing my father without saying bye or I loved him. I was the last person to ever talk to him,plus I did'nt even know if he had mad it to heaven or not. This went on and when I turned 17 I went to join the navy.(no where else to stay) I was still druging and drinking and I got kicked out when I was 19 years old. I went to Tennessee to live with my grandmother.(no one else welcomed me)It was the same house that my father had died in. I layed on her front porch swing every night for three months, and prayed to God crying untill I went to sleep, to let me see my father for just five minutes so I could tell him bye and that I loved him. After three months I started to sleep in the house again. Then one night as I was going to sleep. I was startled to see a yellow shining orb about the size of a basketball coming right down through the ceiling! It stopped about one foot in front of my face. As soon as it did I had the most safe and secure feeling that I had ever had.(WONDERFULL) It started moveing up,and I went with it! through the ceiling! Through the air! All the way to a place that I cuold only call paradice! Cant describe the feeling there. When we got there the orb left and there was my father! standing in a beautifull field beside a river with a tree beside the river that hung out over it. My dad came and hugged me and told me he loved it there. I told him I loved him.He told me he loves me to. Then for some reason I asked him if I could swim in that water. He smiled and said yes. I went out on that tree and jumped in that river. WOW I could'nt belive it! the water was penetrating my soul and healing me from the inside out!!! It was wonderfull!!!!!!!! I got out and my dad said I had to go now. We said bye to each other and that we loved each other. He told me he would be there waiting on me. The orb appeard and took me back home. The next few years I wonderd if it was just a dream. I had never read the bible before. Then one day a man told me there is an answer to every question, in the bible. I went home and asked God if that had just been a dream, and then randomly flipped the bible open to this! Rev. chap. 22 v.1"And he shewed me a pure river of life, clear as crystal,proceeding out of the throne of God and of the lamb." v.2"In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river,was there the tree of life,which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." Praise God I then knew it was real and that I had been there!!!!!!!!!! I JUMPED FROM THAT TREE AND SWAM IN THAT RIVER. This changed my life. I've read the bible through several times now and have since became a preacher. I love God and want to spread the news!

I hope you get a blessing from that story. Tim D. aka:preacher man.

I have nothing to share with a public forum. I don't share my religious experiences unless riled up. Thank you for asking though--it made me think of my many blessings.

I recently answered a similiar question

( http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=Au4Zwr7v9.... )

I would like to repeat my answer here, because it is even more directly relevant to the question you asked.

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My only direct experience with a 'supernatural being' was in the form of sharing a moment of psychospiritual extacy (look up the word, it doesn't necessarily just mean 'extreme joy') with Fenrir Wolf of nordic mythology in his aspect as Pack Alpha tending a deeply wounded omega. The experience was an eternity of hell in one sharp instant for me because of the truths I experienced... but it was the most spiritually significant event in my life, and made me feel whole in ways NOTHING ever did or has since, even with knowing that it was nothing more than an abnormal reaction in my brain brought on by endorphin overload and sensory overload.

Imagine being in the presence of the IDEAL. Not a divinity, but the very icon of the true core of your being, as if the truth of who you were was right there in front of you -- and you get, even if only for a moment... to be it.

When I came back to myself... which was literally a physical fight in and of itself, when I got to a safe place, I let loose a howl that has haunted me to this very day because even if I resolve the issues causing the pain I heard in that howl, I will still know it is possible for a person to HURT that much. Every way that Christians try to depict Hell absolutely PALES compared to the pain I heard in that howl.

I don't care if you believe it's the influence of the supernatural world, an unusual firing pattern of the neurons in the brain, or something between... it changes you forever. Just remembering, and just typing about it, even believing it was nothing more than body chemicals and misfirings in my brain brought on by pain, hyperthermia, and stress, has me in tears as I write this.

Jesus came to me, incarnate, when I was in a serious depression in a hospital emergency room. I was leading a very sinful life and was having an emotional breakdown. Jesus just paced slowly about the room, very holy, and prayed some. Then He looked at me and said, very sweetly, "What are we going to do, Mike? What are we going to do?" [Meaning, "Michael, are you going to lead this sinful life and follow me?"]

It was the sweetest voice I have EVER heard!

It took me years to understand fully what this meant. But it DID change my life.

I owe everything to Jesus, and I don't just mean my house, red convertible, lovely wife, and two beautiful children. I owe my life, and then some.

Whom today will you choose?

-The Sandy Beach Bum

My exboyfriend claimed that the spirit of Jesus himself jumped inside of him. He told me that people were going to sacrifice him just as they sacrificed Jesus, he was murdered 2 years later. He was labled a pscytsophrenic, but for someone who was dislexic and couldn't read and was not raised in a religious household, he sure did quote a lot of scripture. Also, when he said Jesus was in his body, he told me that Jesus came to earth with the same abillitys as anyone else, he said we all have the powers to do what Jesus did. I asked him about walking on water, he responded immediately and said, anyone can, if it's frozen.

as you most likely know i am a medium .. so always in awe of spirit communications

but one touched my heart so much that i recieved and i will never forget it

i was getting a reading from a wonderful medium , who had brought through my aunt

now she described her , gave personal details of her , told how she had died , shared some memories of her , which was all wonderful

but no name was given.. but with all this amazing information .. i wasnt too concerned about a name

she started to finish up the reading but was to give me one last message

that my aunt was loving reading books with me .. that she enjoyed being there while i learned

and asked me to go to the book i was now reading and turn to chapter 4 and read the heading

so i did

and the heading said

" Gifts from Grace "

i stood in disbelief at what i was looking at

my aunts name ? ..... Grace !

isnt that just wonderful xxx

I have found on this forum that putting your most precious commodity out for public viewing is like sending your baby in to play with a pack of wolves.....But thanks for the kind thoughts.

bismillaah (in the name of Allaah)

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