stardust
Child Age 12- Epiphany Experience- Did God Choose Him?
Posted on: 08/31/2010 19:51
An author, DouglasWWallace, who has written a book titled " Everything Will Be All Right" is telling about a spiritual experience he had at age 12. I haven't read the book but I don't believe he or his family were particularly religious or spiritual. It almost sounds as if he was chosen for some reason. Do you believe in anything like that? Would it tie in with Calvinism?
DouglasWWallace
Author describes an epiphany experience at the age of 12
interview
Everything Will Be All Right (the book):
Poverty, alcoholism, and violence destroyed his childhood. Perseverance and ambition saved his life. Abused by an alcoholic, unemployed father, Doug Wallace and his seven siblings barely survived childhood-fleeing in the night from landlords, scrambling for food, and burning down the only home they ever owned to collect insurance money. In this raw testimony of a heartbreaking, hardscrabble childhood, Doug Wallace paints an unforgettable portrait of a child determined to free himself from the cycle of poverty that strangled his family for generations.
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stardust
Oops....I forgot to post the
Posted on: 08/31/2010 19:56
Oops....I forgot to post the link where he describes his experience. I posted the same link twice above, sorry. I hope this is the right one!
http://www.youtube.com/user/DouglasWWallace#p/u/2/wX1ZecNQmds
mrs.anteater
I don't think he was
Posted on: 08/31/2010 20:33
I don't think he was particularly chosen for something- not more than any other person. I think he was open for an experience which was meant for him.
I had a similar experience in a dream when I was about 20 (without the guilt feelings, though). I believe we would have more of those experiences if we weren't so busy with other things.
Arminius
We humans, through God's
Posted on: 09/01/2010 01:45
We humans, through God's mighty voice
Did we attain ITs godly gift of choice.
The gift of choice, when we become its user,
Will make us into chosen and the chooser.
-Arminius
We can choose ourselves to be chosen. Or, as mrs.anteater just said, we can open ourselves to the experience of oneness.
I think we innately are inseparably united with God. All we need to do is become aware of this oneness. And this has to be chosen by us, not God.
God is always inseparably connected with us; it is we who believe ourselves to be separate. Once we remove the illusion of separateness, then we experience everything as is: in a state of oneness. This is not up to God; this is up to us! The illusion of separateness has been created by us, and has to be removed by us!
unsafe
I totally agree with
Posted on: 09/01/2010 07:22
I totally agree with Arminius's comments ----Great Posting
Blessings and
RitaTG
Arminius ....... thank you
Posted on: 09/01/2010 08:25
Arminius ....... thank you for that gem ...... that I will incorporate into my life.
That adds so much clarity ............
Hugs
Rita
airclean33
Hi Arminius- very good- I
Posted on: 09/01/2010 09:49
Hi Arminius- very good- I would like it if some day I could here you preach.
Arminius
Thanks, everyone. Actually,
Posted on: 09/01/2010 17:25
Thanks, everyone.
Actually, the poem I quoted in my post is only the third verse of my poem THE SECOND COMING. I posted it here on the Café a year or two ago, but some of you who have joined since may not have read it.
THE SECOND COMING
When humankind was desperate and forlorn,
A server and preserver then was born,
A saviour, compassionate and kind,
To heal, and liberate, the human mind.
He was The Chosen One, so we have heard.
The Chosen One? What hides behind that word?
And who has chosen him? We need to know!
How did he come about? Where did he go?
We humans, through God's mighty voice
Did we attain ITs godly gift of choice.
The gift of choice, when we become its user,
Will make us into chosen and the chooser.