My Own Awakening

markeverett

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:07 pm +0000

Joined: Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:55 pm +0000
Posts: 13
Location: West Tennessee

Hi all, I am new here and I am so glad to have found you all. I feel obligated to share my own awakening due to the fact that everyone here is so completely honest and it has become obvious to me as I peruse the posts today that I owe it to the Universal Father to share what he has done for me. I understand that some people are receptive to spiritual concepts and others need to be hit over the head. I may have been raised in church, but I was one of the later. I would have always considered myself to be intelligent, well read, with a great education and pretty much able to make my own way in the World without the help of any higher being whatsoever. Little did I realize what God truly had in store for me. I realize now that all of this "freedom" that I felt was no more than God allowing me a long leash that he planned to yank me back to reality with at his appointed time. About ten years ago I was doing my psychology internship at a little hospital on the Gulf Coast. A elderly man was brought in with what was determined at the time as a compulsive disorder of the religious tone. I am ashamed to admit that due to my own ignorance I believed the diagnosis and did my best to help the man with his diagnosis. At the time I had no realization that this man was actually wise, and was the only one in the whole ward who truly had a clue to what life was all about and why we were truly here. His wife brought in the book that he treasured more than life itself as I do my copy now as well. You guessed it, The Urantia Book. The man did well in treatment, or played like he did as God was truly on his side and he was discharged with a good prognosis. He asked me to remember him later in life as he would me and told me that I would soon come to the realization that he was infact correct. I would think of the man from time to time and often wondered how he was. Still I always felt a pull towards his beliefs even if my " wise and rational" mind would dismiss his beliefs.
Last summer I was on a guided climb of Denali in Alaska. On the 15th of July a freaky snowstorm blew in and I along with three other climbers and our guide were stranded for three days as the wind howled and we dealt with our frostbite. It was God's providence for us to even survive. On 2 p.m. on the 18th of July we were found. We thought by the rescue patrol. As we made it back to base camp we learned that the patrol was infact still looking for us on the West Buttress route, when we had infact came down on the West Rib route. All could be a mistake perhaps, maybe we were all suffering from hypothermia etc., stranger things have happened. However one of the "rescuers" gave me his card as we walked into basecamp. Both of the rescuers never walked into basecamp with us as they got another call we thought. As I tried to explain to the personnel that we had infact been rescued, and pulled the rescuers card from my pack, all it had on it was the man's name I had saw in the hospital 9 years ago.
Now, I may not understand all, and I probably never will. But I now read the Urantia everyday, and most importantly live my life like the Universal Father wants me to. I have learned that His will for me is greater than any I could ever plan myself.

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Spiritual progress is not only the means, but the end. Without it we are but wasting all that we have been given.

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