tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-912860120889722233.post8339273022142801394..comments2023-04-02T11:04:04.829-04:00Comments on As the Crowe Flies: A Loss of FearPenelope Crowehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17665590654663654428noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-912860120889722233.post-54673655726507102512015-04-12T12:40:04.988-04:002015-04-12T12:40:04.988-04:00Fascinating!!
I want sooo bad to hear your story n...Fascinating!!<br />I want sooo bad to hear your story now--I want to hear about the experience. I hope you write about it soon.Penelope Crowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17665590654663654428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-912860120889722233.post-74379770477438770942015-04-12T10:40:13.400-04:002015-04-12T10:40:13.400-04:00Hello! Thank you for sharing such a personal journ...Hello! Thank you for sharing such a personal journey, especially one that deals with your very soul. That takes bravery.<br /><br />My experience is almost the mirror image of yours - reversed in almost every way. I was raised in a home that was staunchly, if not vehemently, anti-religious. My father was a lapsed Catholic, and proclaimed agnostic. My mother? I'm not sure. I think she believed. She was raised Baptist (I think?). Once, when my father was deployed for a long stretch, she took my sister and I to church, and that was the only time I went to bible study. Then dad came back, and there was no more church. I went to college a hardened atheist.<br /><br />Last year, I had an experience that I can only call a spiritual awakening. It was very painful because my brain was not willing to give up the atheism - or my self-proclaimed status as a non-practicing Buddhist. Yet... and I won't try and convince you (or anyone else)... I felt what I can only call the Holy Spirit. I began, for the first time, to read about Christianity. And I felt that I had been given the grace for which Christ died. It's a horrible mythology in a lot of ways, and my mind still struggles with almost everything in the Bible! Yet, I'm a believer.<br /><br />When that happened, for the first time I realized I wasn't afraid. Like you, I realized I could turn off the lights and not be terrified. I could breathe freely.<br /><br />I suspect we've both encountered the same eternal truth, the same underlying spirit, but our minds (which are only human and mine, at least, is very limited!) are having trouble giving human names to something so all-encompassing.<br /><br />I am glad you have found your way out of fear.<br /><br />-anikoAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05234745981660678178noreply@blogger.com