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Then a marvelous thing happened. My head broke the surface of the river and I crawled to shore where I coughed-up the river water I took in. At that moment on shore, I knew God had saved me, but why? For what purpose? I didn't know. Unbeknown to me, my girlfriend had gotten tangled up in a dead tree in the middle of the river. Although she could see I was in serious trouble, she was unable to help.
My throat and sinuses hurt from the river water. I tried to explain to my girlfriend what had happened but she just didn't understand. She finally hit me. I suppose she was trying to knock some "sense" in me. So I told no one what happened after that, except once about 18 years ago. More about that later. My fiancée and I eventually broke up and she married someone else on the day we picked for our wedding. So it goes.
I had drowning nightmares for years, and chills would go up my spine when I drove over certain types of bridges, especially in outside lanes. I tried to figure out what God wanted me for, why he even wanted me, and started reading the Bible. I started at the beginning (bad idea) and got bogged down in Numbers. Without God's purpose for my life and breaking up with my fiancée, I had my worse semester of college ever getting 1.75 GPA.
Everything happens for a reason, a purpose, God's purpose for our lives.
When I wrote about this on another Christian forum about two years ago, it was still very difficult for me to write. The response I received made me more willing to share this part of my life. The only other time I wrote about this, or even told anybody about this, I was met with silence. I think I'd rather have disbelief or called a liar more than silence. Anyway, it was ten years between my drowning and my salvation. A lot happened in those ten years, but it all brought me to Him. That was His plan all along. Praise God.
There's more to tell, but I'll save that for future Blog entries.
My throat and sinuses hurt from the river water. I tried to explain to my girlfriend what had happened but she just didn't understand. She finally hit me. I suppose she was trying to knock some "sense" in me. So I told no one what happened after that, except once about 18 years ago. More about that later. My fiancée and I eventually broke up and she married someone else on the day we picked for our wedding. So it goes.
I had drowning nightmares for years, and chills would go up my spine when I drove over certain types of bridges, especially in outside lanes. I tried to figure out what God wanted me for, why he even wanted me, and started reading the Bible. I started at the beginning (bad idea) and got bogged down in Numbers. Without God's purpose for my life and breaking up with my fiancée, I had my worse semester of college ever getting 1.75 GPA.
Everything happens for a reason, a purpose, God's purpose for our lives.
When I wrote about this on another Christian forum about two years ago, it was still very difficult for me to write. The response I received made me more willing to share this part of my life. The only other time I wrote about this, or even told anybody about this, I was met with silence. I think I'd rather have disbelief or called a liar more than silence. Anyway, it was ten years between my drowning and my salvation. A lot happened in those ten years, but it all brought me to Him. That was His plan all along. Praise God.
There's more to tell, but I'll save that for future Blog entries.