When I started out 45 yrs ago there was no light at the end of the tunnel only despair at watching the world destroy itself and I had no one to relate it to...after 5 decades there is light at the end of the tunnel and the tunnel is disappearing

Tell me George did you perchance have some extraordinary experience of a spiritual sort that preceded your path seeking Truth?

I've had premonitions my whole life but I was shot and killed 25 yrs ago went into cardiac arrest. This was on good Friday at 10 in the morning my right leg was blown off halfway down the femur I only had a small piece of muscle holding my leg on and shot clean thru the left leg..I bled out before I reached the hospital
.they gave me 70 pints of blood and 10000 units of iv solution but my organs were shutting down and told my family I wouldn't last thru the night..they put me on a pacemaker and ventilator for my families sake so I wouldn't die on Easter.
.they were going to pull the plug on monday but I came back on Easter angry I was back..they had to put me back out because of the pain.
I wasn't supposed to live they were going to amputate my legs for 7 months and I wouldn't let them..I they said I would never walk again I spent a year in a hospital bed paralyzed....God had other plans and I walk work and do everything I used to..6 months later I got a bill from the orthopedic

Surgeon named Dr Cross for $7 and one from the anesthesiologist named Dr Christ for $3 I spent a year in the hospital bed paralyzed
.this was when I really started researching..I was asked to tell my story to several churches. I've always believed IN God but the experience magnified everything 100 fold..I was a combat medic and I knew when I was shot I wouldn't survive it because of the damage
.I completely bled out
.I knew I was dying when the end came the pain left and a feeling of euphoria came over me..it was like the weight of the entire world was lifted off my shoulders..I can't begin to explain how wonderful it felt bathed in light and love..when I awoke it was back to this world and immeasurable pain
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Wow George .. fascinating! ... thank you so much. God is GOOD!
My experience was not nearly as dramatic in some ways, certainly not life threatening, but in '69 on my 18th birthday I was blessed w/ an hours long multi-faceted direct experience of God that thereafter prefigured a completely inexplicable sudden but extremely sincere pursuit of, and search for, *Truth* that, while I otherwise lived a fairly normal if not typical life; musician, married, raising a child, various jobs etc, consumes me still.
Wasn't raised in church, had a very nominal exposure to Christianity and the Bible through my mother's family but after decades of my 'great search' God ran me (finally and when it was time) in '2007 or so headlong into the Bible which eventually put *everything* I examined, pursued, and studied over those decades til then into their correct perspective and made of me a Christian .. a development I would not in a thousand years have imagined happening to me.