I just saw the movie, “The Case for Christ,” and after a good cry I decided to share my own journey . . .
It was not easy for me to totally accept spirituality or the concept of God. When I was young I stopped believing that God cared about me because he didn’t seem to be answering my prayers. Then, when I was older, I became an agnostic. I didn’t believe we could prove God existed, so I thought why bother with the whole issue at all. Of course, sometimes I would acknowledge God as the power behind creation, but I could not see God as a source of love and power, or a spiritual being with whom I could interact. Surely, I thought, if God had been around at some point he had abandoned us.
In 1982, I once again thought about God after I started going to 12-step meetings. The pain in my life had begun to subside and I felt as if I had been raised to a new level of consciousness. I didn’t know why, or how it had happened, but I was suddenly filled with hope about the future, and for...
