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[quote=Anonymous]Former atheist/agnostic here. Grew up with atheist/lapsed Catholic father and lapsed Catholic mother who didn't openly talk about spirituality. Decided at age 14 when Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker were all over the news and after watching Dana Carvey's Church Lady  that God/Jesus and all religions were "lame" and belief was relative to ones culture and family. Pretty deep reasoning, I know.

Anyways, fast forward to 2004. I'm in the middle of a messy, expensive divorce and starting all over. I was driving on the highway and in a moment of deep, utter despair, I angrily dared God "if you're real, if you really e ist, then show me a sign, something I know and can't doubt is coming from you". At that PRECISE moment, my eyes were drawn to see an open field next to a forest and as if by magic, a huge billboard with the singular word 
" Jesus" appeared. I exclaimed with skepticism  "oh my god you're really here?!" and then a semi truck with the words "rite on time" crossed over into my lane. Again with skepticism I said "you're really here?" And then at THATprecise moment, my eyes spotted another billboard (a concert promotion for some rock band) that said "30 years and waiting"

I'll say I didn't immediately convert at that moment, but it was the beginning of faith for me. I could have handled silence at the moment I asked for a sign and would have just continued my atheist/agnostic path and accepted that we're just worm food. If the sign had said "Buddha, God, Allah or Muhammad on it then I'd be a converted Buddhist, Jew or Muslim.  In the months that followed, more strange coincidences happened that were just inexplicable to me other than coming from a divine source.

Still not particularly religious. But damn, a sign like that, mixed with inexplicable benevolent coincidences, and my life and spirit restored..I just can't believe in atheism anymore. To me, Christ and God and the spirit realm are real...church and religion not as much.[/quote]

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