“How well I remember when He deposited my faith into me—and how then I responded. It remains the great highlight of my entire life.”
Same here. I was 12, building a model airplane or rocket, thinking about the Big Bang and I realized it had to have come from something. The alternative cosmology at the time was continuous creation, which speculated hydrogen atoms were created as the universe expanded. I liked that because it meant God had to exist, to create the hydrogen atoms.
Now in both scientific theories about the creation of the universe God had to exist.
I felt such peace, knowing God existed. I knew then that everything would turn out all right. This was 1968 and I was quite upset with how the Vietnam war was going. I couldn’t understand why we weren’t winning it. Regardless, I now know God would take care of us.