My Story

I was born in Albany, New York the youngest of three children. My father was Catholic and my mother was Episcopalian. I was raised Catholic and attended church almost every Sunday. When I was ten my father decided that we were not going to church anymore. He said the church was getting too modern. Conducting folk masses and having people on the pulpit that were not ordained was too much for him. I believe the real reason was that my father had lost his faith or he never had a very strong one. I had no objections to leaving the church. It had no meaning for me anyway, it was all very boring and pointless to me.

I left home when I was eighteen and joined the Air Force. I attended church on occasion but not that often. I would only go at out a sense of guilt not out of a desire to know God.

Like many people in my position who felt that Christianity was not the answer to life’s questions, I began to explore other beliefs and religions. I ventured or perhaps waded into Buddhism, Hinduism, and Transcendental Meditation. I eventually embraced the New Age.

A friend of mine was attending a year long course that he said was helping him to become aware of himself and his identity in the universe. He told me that it was giving him the peace that he had always sought. In the same course you could also learn how to perform psychic readings. I wasn’t interested in the psychic aspect, but I was looking for meaning in my life and perhaps this would help. I attended the course and at the end of it I was able to perform psychic readings and was quite good at it. Now make no mistake, it does work but there is a reason for that. I will explain why before I finish.

There was still something missing in my life, a community, and a sense of belonging. There isn’t one in the New Age. A friend of mine invited me to her church. She said I might like it and I did. The pastor’s message was positive and I really enjoyed the music. The church was rather large and I enjoyed the fact that I could remain anonymous. My friend also knew I was a very logical and analytical thinker. She told me about a seminar taught by a scientist who had come to faith in Jesus Christ. He would be discussing the evidence to support the Bible and the authenticity of the story of Jesus. I’ve always been a good debater and I thought it might be fun to put the teacher on the defensive. I was sure that when it got down to the facts, he would rely on some type of a “blind faith” answer. I couldn’t have been more wrong. The facts began chipping away at all my mis-information I had about the Bible, Jesus and Christianity. On the night of the last class I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior.

I did have one more “demon” to conquer. In the week following I experienced much opposition from the voices of my “guides”, the ones I utilized to perform readings. They said that my newfound faith was not real. It was then that I realized that the voices were in opposition to my new found faith, because it was the opposite of theirs. I knew right then that I had been in the wrong place my whole life and that my spirit guides were not of God.

The reason that my psychic readings “worked” although not all the time, is that it does have to work on some level other wise you wouldn’t stick with it. The guides or more accurately the demon’s goals, are to keep you dependent on them and from seeking or even finding the truth about God. It was that realization that convinced me that I had been wrong my entire life and that I needed to continue to build towards a closer relationship with Jesus Christ.

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