Your thoughts on an occurence?

[TheOcelot]

Hello everyone.

First I would like to compliment both the forum and community, it seems like a nice place here.

I registered to ask for opinions/thoughts on something that recently happened to me about an hour or so ago. I technically am a Christian (I was Christened as a baby and went to a Church of England Primary School) but I have never really 'believed.' I decided to post in this section out of respect.

However, an hour ago the strangest thing happened to me. I had a flashback of how we used to sing hymns in Primary School in the hall, and the one which contained "We have bread and fishes and a jug of red wine
To share on our journey with all of mankind" came into my head.

I decided to track the folk hymn down out of curiosity, I managed to find it on YouTube. When the Chorus approached, I started to cry. I was smiling and crying at the same time, and began to sing along. The hairs on my arm and neck stood up, It was such a strange feeling. Has anything like this ever happened to anyone before, or have they heard of anything like this happening to someone before? Is it possibly a message?

I keep trying to put a logical stamp on it (Nostalgia, or emotions running high at the moment in my life) but I feel as if I should ask for other people's opinions on this. It really has me baffled, because I barely ever cry.

Thank you!

 

[steve_bakr]

I think you have had would could be called an epiphany, and this that you describe, I think, is what William James--author of The Varieties of Religious Experience-- would call a "sudden conversion". These occurences are documented in religious history and invariably result in a turning to God and living a life that is more centered on God or conscious of God. My advice to you is that you "believe", that you cherish the experience and make it mean something by the way you live your life. It is quite possible that this may be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, unless you are becoming a genuine mystic. Either way, be grateful for the experience. It is a gift.

 

[juvenissun]

Hello everyone.

First I would like to compliment both the forum and community, it seems like a nice place here.

I registered to ask for opinions/thoughts on something that recently happened to me about an hour or so ago. I technically am a Christian (I was Christened as a baby and went to a Church of England Primary School) but I have never really 'believed.' I decided to post in this section out of respect.

However, an hour ago the strangest thing happened to me. I had a flashback of how we used to sing hymns in Primary School in the hall, and the one which contained "We have bread and fishes and a jug of red wine
To share on our journey with all of mankind" came into my head.

I decided to track the folk hymn down out of curiosity, I managed to find it on YouTube. When the Chorus approached, I started to cry. I was smiling and crying at the same time, and began to sing along. The hairs on my arm and neck stood up, It was such a strange feeling. Has anything like this ever happened to anyone before, or have they heard of anything like this happening to someone before? Is it possibly a message?

I keep trying to put a logical stamp on it (Nostalgia, or emotions running high at the moment in my life) but I feel as if I should ask for other people's opinions on this. It really has me baffled, because I barely ever cry.

Thank you!

My first experience similar to that happened when I was late 20's in graduate school. I sort of remembered that I was in my student office.

So, I guess your experience is probably normal, although I am not sure what does it mean.

 

[drich0150]

Hello everyone.

First I would like to compliment both the forum and community, it seems like a nice place here.

I registered to ask for opinions/thoughts on something that recently happened to me about an hour or so ago. I technically am a Christian (I was Christened as a baby and went to a Church of England Primary School) but I have never really 'believed.' I decided to post in this section out of respect.

However, an hour ago the strangest thing happened to me. I had a flashback of how we used to sing hymns in Primary School in the hall, and the one which contained "We have bread and fishes and a jug of red wine
To share on our journey with all of mankind" came into my head.

I decided to track the folk hymn down out of curiosity, I managed to find it on YouTube. When the Chorus approached, I started to cry. I was smiling and crying at the same time, and began to sing along. The hairs on my arm and neck stood up, It was such a strange feeling. Has anything like this ever happened to anyone before, or have they heard of anything like this happening to someone before? Is it possibly a message?

I keep trying to put a logical stamp on it (Nostalgia, or emotions running high at the moment in my life) but I feel as if I should ask for other people's opinions on this. It really has me baffled, because I barely ever cry.

Thank you!

there are a few songs like that I can not get through. I think it embarrasses my wife, but there is literaly nothing I can do about it. For me these song were imprinted on me when I went through my darkest time. I could not even pray I was so broken... so I sang the chorus of It is well, over and over.

Sometimes the conviction of the Spirit works outside of the conviction of our sins. Meaning sometimes God speaks to your heart even if you conscientiously do not know what was said, your heart does.

I do not like using the word "sign" it has been too holly wooded up to mean what it is supposed to. Let say you have been given an opportunity. We generally don't get many so do not let this one pass.

 

[berachah]

I think God is calling you back.....embrace it

 

[yanno the meek]

I feel as if I should ask for other people's opinions on this. It really has me baffled, because I barely ever cry.

I very much discourage you to let us interpret it for you. I'm certain that in the days of Jesus, when someone spoke of the miracles they had witnessed at the hand of Jesus there was always someone nearby who had a very rational, plausible explanation.

You had the experience, only you can say whether it was a sign.

 

[bling]

God is literally at your elbow, but not phisically visable.

 

[Aino]

Maybe he is indeed calling you back, maybe you just got nostalgic. Only you know where it can have come from. I would like to interpret it as God's calling though... But I'm christian. Well, anyhow I can encourage you to try God out regardless of whatever this experience was... He'll sure hear your prayers and lighten up the Bible for you if you prayerfully read it if he's there.