I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.
I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.
I felt the Lord at a young age. And it was one of those things where that seed was planted, you know, when I was a kid.
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.
I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.