Mark Dohle
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“This is how much I love you….At that moment my life changed.”
I felt the urge to look up in the sky and suddenly or felt like … a stroke of love, which took me straight to the heart, in a very strong way. According to my watch, this experience lasted only three seconds, but it was very, very powerful. At that precise
moment I felt that God was speaking to me and he was telling me: ” This is how much I love each of you, all over the world “.--María Vallejo-Nágera
People will often say that they believe that “God is Love”. Of course, the love of God is a central theme in the Christian faith. A love, shown to us in Jesus Christ. The parable of the ‘Prodigal Son”, brings this clearly too light. However, to say “God is Love”, can become a cliché, or understood in such a way that it is not much use at all. For a revelation shows something that has always been, but yet unknown, until brought too light.
The woman ‘Maria’ who spoke the above quote, one day, without asking for it, or on a conscious level even desired it, had an experience probably like the one St. Paul had. For from one moment to the next her life was transformed, changed, and suddenly she found herself on a different path.
If God is indeed love, then all or loved, embraced by God. If this love is experienced at ever deeper levels as one goes through life, or if given suddenly like it was with St. Paul and Maria, everything is flipped, values change, inner freedom increased and the ability to embrace life is also enhanced. The need to run, or escape the pain and choas of life, is lessened or taken away.
Once God’s love is experienced deeply, freely, it is then that the understanding of what it means when Jesus tells us “Not to Judge” becomes central to one’s life. For each human, is beloved of God. AsMariafoundout, when God’s grace touched her heart. I do believe that each human will experience this, it is called “a Damascus event”, where for a longer or shorter time, the reality of God becomes manifest, as well as God’s love, which unlike any other. Because God’s love for all is infinite, I believe that everyone will have this sooner or later in life, perhaps only at the time of death. –Br.MD
In Medjugorje, God told me: “This is how much I love you….At that moment my life changed.
Below is a simple account of Maria’s experienced:
Translated by Google Translate. Published originally at La Luce Di Maria
In Medjugorje God told me: “This is how much I love you” and at that moment, there in that remote place of Bosnia, my life has changed. María Vallejo-Nágera , Spanish writer, recounted her moving experience in Medjugorje: “I would like to tell you this little story of my life, which changed completely when I went to the village called Medjugorje for the first time”.
The trip to Medjugorje, organized by friends.
It was 1999 and she lived in London, with her three children. It was called Catholic, but “however I did not realize what God was, I did not have faith, I did not want to talk about God, I was not interested in either the Church or God”. Then, the trip to Medjugorje, organized by some of his friends, changed things.
“The first day was really boring for me, I did not understand a word, nor what happened, I did not believe that Our Lady appeared to those six young people, I did not even behave during the Mass , I had found one in English in the morning, but I had done nothing but take pictures all the time, without listening to a word of what the priest or celebration said. “
On leaving the Mass, María Vallejo-Nágera headed for the hall where the visionaries held talks. “We walked near the confessionals and at the same time on my right was the outer wall of the church of San Giacomo. I was surrounded by my friends and I was joking with them.
Conversion
I felt the urge to look up in the sky and suddenly or felt like … a stroke of love, which took me straight to the heart, in a very strong way. According to my watch, this experience lasted only three seconds , but it was very, very powerful. At that precise moment I felt that God was speaking to me and he was telling me: ” This is how much I love each of you, all over the world “.
I also felt a kind of shock of fear, of pain, because at that precise moment I realized that I had been really bad towards my affections, towards faith and God “. Since then, María Vallejo-Nágera has begun to go to Mass every day, to go to confession, to feed on the Eucharist, as she had never done before. And it has changed, as he says, also his way of writing.
Antonella Sanicanti