Posted on 04/13/2012 5:50:52 AM PDT by NYer
While Catholics may disagree with Storm’s final assessment, the story is insightful, especially in terms of life after death.
Great story. Bump.
May God remind us of this fellow’s story.
I’m such a sinner myself and I only hope that I can meet Christ’s expectations.
Beautiful story, thank you!
A divine rescue by the hands of our Savior.
-—Storm rose through academia and took a job as a professor of art in Kentucky where he says that the overwhelming majority of the faculty were atheists and hedonists.-—
Which explains why modern art is worthless, and why I decided to skip art school. I went to engineering school instead, but fell into the same narcisstic trap. By the grace of God, I was able to escape the worldly lifestyle and became... an artist.
Coming soon to Amerika if the SCOTUS doesn't knock down Obamacare...
This past Monday I had the most surreal day of my life. I believe my mother, who recently passed, sent this gentleman into my life. As an adopted child, my adoptive father killed himself in 1967 and I have carried a hatred for him all my life, though I never knew the man. (I was 2 when he committed suicide). Through fate I was at my studio when I shouldn’t have been and this guy shows up who bears the same name as my adopted name. (I legally changed my last name before marriage/family). Through our conversation he revealed to me that he was killed in a private plane crash in the mountains of Tennessee, yet here he was to tell me his story of being sent back by Jesus. There are many other aspexts to my story of that day wich would take too long to relate here but at the end of the day I had a clarity that I never had before. Any shred of doubt of God, Jesus or heaven is forever gone after hearing the story and its effect on me.
>>While Catholics may disagree with Storm’s final assessment, the story is insightful, especially in terms of life after death.<<
As a Catholic, I see a miracle for a man who left this Earth before his time. Our Lord gave him a gift because He had a bigger plan for him. Pity he chooses to divide instead of bringing people to God. I’ve known MANY good people who Love the Lord and don’t care how people come to Him, as long as they do.
God in his infinite wisdom, His will be done.
I had a cousin who was two months younger than me. He was always the type who wanted to be the first to deliver news to the rest of the family or neighborhood. Whether it was a car accident down the street or a house fire or even a death in the neighborhood he always raced to our grandparents 3 family house to be the first to tell about it. My brother Michael and I would laugh among ourselves about this. If something in the neighborhood had happened my brother and I and our cousin would head back to the house to tell the rest of the family. We would watch our cousin as he sped up his walking the closer we got to the house. My brother and I would just smile at each other.
Just before the age of 29 my cousin had died of a sudden illness not known to the family until after he had died. He had blood clots in his leg and one of them went to his heart and killed him.
The moment this had happened I was alone at home (in another town 15 minutes from the 3 family house). It was late in the morning and I was sleeping at the time as I had a 3rd shift job.
My mom got the news of my cousin's death where she worked. Evidentally somebody in the family had called her job to give her the news. Since I took her to work earlier in the morning she had to call me to give me the news and to go and pick her up from work so she could be with her brother during this terrible time.
Well, my phone rang and rang because I was sleeping. The sound of the phone ringing was most likely what caused me to dream that I got out of bed, went into the kitchen to answer the phone.
Me: "Hello?"
My cousin's voice: "Guess what! Michael just died"
Me: "What?"
I woke up suddenly and quickly sat up on the bed. That dream scared me. I never dream about death or people dying especially family members not to mention my own brother. The phone was still ringing. It must have been why I dreamed that I was answering the phone, I supposed. It had been ringing for quite some time now so I rushed to answer it.
Me: "Hello?"
My mom (sobbing): "You have to come pick me up. Kevin just passed away"
Me: "Who? Johnny?" (Johnny was another cousin addicted to crack and cocaine and was always assumed to be found dead at some point because of it)
My mom: "No. Kevin. I need you to come now and pick me up..."
I had never forgotten that call. I am one who can explain many of my dreams by connecting it to something that had happened to me unusually during the day before I had fallen asleep but this one I could never explain.
It was a dream that let me know that something must happen after death. That we do continue. To this day I have yet to tell this to my aunt and uncle. Years have passed since and I'm thinking about telling them about that dream.
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Wow! Thanks for sharing that.
I have no disagreement. Our pastor likens it to a journey. Some are taking a jet and others are on bikes, but we get there all the same.
I worked with a man who was very religious and very up on the Bible.He is the person to go to when you have a question on the Bible because he can quote chapter and verse,old and new testament.
He and I are of different faiths{ I am Catholic} and he never tried to convert me. He said the same thing you said. It doesnt really matter what faith as long as you accept Christ.
But dont ask him how he feels about Jehovah Witnesses.....
It took awhile before he realized that they were the demons of Hell...
What Expectation?
This man's story sums it up very well. All our righteous acts are like filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). The expectation of Christ and the New Covenant is just that: Believe. Understand that "I'm Garbage"...I DESERVE hell...and apart from Christ's atoning death on the cross...I would spend eternity there and rightfully so. This is the expectation of the Gospel. That is the Good News.
Mother Teresa or Billy Graham do not deserve heaven more than you...and Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot do not deserve hell more than I. All have sinned and fallen short of God's glory...and all deserve to be eternally punished for that...since that is the wage of our sin. But thanks be to Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man, who died on a cross so that whosoever believes on Him shall not perish...but have everlasting life. There is no other expectation.
-—It doesnt really matter what faith as long as you accept Christ.-—
I don’t mean to he argumentative, but that’s an important error.
Jesus is Truth Itself, so to be seekers of God we must be seekers of Truth. The closer we are to truth in our moral and intellectual lives, the closer we are to God.
What God wants from us on earth is our best effort at attaining truth, however much we fail. We must also exhort and reprove others, but always in charity. Easier said than done, I know.
:: eventually becoming a minister in the United Church of Christ ::
Just like Jeremiah Wright....
...I like the night-life, baby! Let's go!...(Let's Go -- The Cars)
My idea of a call to heaven would be more along the lines of Stevie Ray Vaughan or Jimi Hendrix. Or even Mozart.
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