Tonight while I was at 9:00pm mass, I started to get the "something's not right" feeling in my stomach. The kind that could go either way in the next 30 minutes. You all have been there before, and know how much of a inconvenience that could be in the middle of mass. So I decided to send up a brief prayer asking God to help me through mass so that I could focus on the teachings. I need to point out that I have been Christian my entire life, I just recently became Christian. A few months ago after a lot of pushing from my girlfriend I went to our college's Catholic Church and loved it and ever since I have been attending was regularly and really trying to bring God into every part of my life. As a "new" Christian, one of my struggles has been seeing God at work in my life. I fully believe that he has a plan for me, my problem/worry is that I am going to miss the signs or ignore them when He presents them to me. Any who, as mass continued, so did the uh-oh feeling. Finally Made it to the end, and as usual we stood up to sing the closing hymn. As soon as the first word was sung my vision went blurry and I got light headed. I knew right away what was happening and sat down resting my head on the pew I front of me. Fortunately I was sitting by one of my new friends and student missionary at the church. He noticed my situation and as soon as he finished the song he asked me how I was doing and brought me to his office to lay on the couch. Soon enough I was fine, but during that time in his office, one our other friends, and my girlfriends best friends, noticed me and came in to ask how I was doing and talk. Eventually we got on the topic of the up coming retreat and she said "hey I know you wanted to visit your girlfriend, but I really think you should go to this retreat instead. I've already talked to Heidi about it and she is ok with it" I have been hearing Father and others talk about this retreat for some time, but I never thought of going. By the end of our talk I was signed up for the retreat. What I though was going to be an one hour trip to mass then right back to my dorm and friends turned into me finding the path that God has planned for me. If any of you are looking for The Lord in your life as I was, keep your eyes open because he truly does work in mysterious ways! I apologize for and spelling/grammatical errors, typing on a phone sometimes gets the better of me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sometimes you just have to be open to Gods will within your life. Many are called but few answer. Keep your light burning brother and when in doubt lean on the Scripture to find your way.
