The Experience That Changed Me Forever

On Palm Sunday 1973 I had an experience that changed my life forever.  For me it was a true Born Again moment.  Forty three years later I can still see and feel that experience as if it happened only a second ago.  I am always brought back to that moment no matter where I wander; in good years, bad years, prodigal years, desert years…God continually reminds me that I am His and He is mine.  When all is said and done in my life, it is the only thing that truly matters to me.

Presence without form

Communion without words

An encounter of inner transformation

Unseen to the human eye

But clearly felt by the heart and soul

And I was changed forever.

The Seed of Life within opened

The Scriptures came to life

The stories made perfect sense

They spoke to me

They moved me

And I knew they were true.

In that moment in time

I fell head over heels in love

With the Carpenter from Nazareth

Jesus…God’s only Son

Through it all that love has never changed

It only grows deeper, realer, and truer.