Not to the day ofr anything. But approximately 4 years ago I had a massive stroke, at that time I was going to church, practicing meditation telling people what I thought they would want to hear. I was a Christian around Christians. I liked every body at the church I was going to, that I go to now.
But I was very much wanting to be a "politically correct Christian" I was thinking that "Jesus was an good spiritual teacher, but so was Buddha, and Patanjali, and a lot of others. Having been a member of AA, NA and whatever other A fit my purposes I had brought into the Idea that as long as I believed something it didn't matter what I believed.
But after waking up one morning feeling kind of nauseous and wondering if it had always been this difficult to walk. Having a fellow that I was letting stay at my house while he got clean (off of dope) rush me to the hospital stopping only to get himself a pack of smokes. Then sending to orderlies running down the hall screaming for help at ER. Apparently 245/190 is kind of high for blood pressure.
With consciousness coming and going, with my step mom frantically trying to get me to sign a power of attorney, coming to another time with a wash cloth covering my face, and screaming my lungs out (as I thought I had been buried alive), only to find out that I was in an MRI. After a couple of days I started to think. What if Wayne Dwyer, and some of today's most popular "New Age Philosophers were wrong? If I didn't make it how important would being correct be?
Really Christianity made a lot more sense just this side of eternity than it had before. There were a lot of folks from church that came to visit me even though I had only been a nominal church member before. People from AA and NA stopped by to. the folks fom church prayed for me. the Folks from AA/NA told me to buck up. I think the praying thing had a little more effect now that I look at it in hind site.
I'll Continue this later.
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