6 Months ago my life was not worth living. I was literally in hell and somehow God reached down and touched my heart. I was living in Pensacola, Fl and some lady from my local church stopped into my store frequently inviting me to attend church. Her persistance paid off and I finally attended a singles group and met a lot of great friends. I got to the point where I got baptized and let the Lord into my life. 1 Month later my brother passed away at 36 years of age. I was in shock and didn't know how I was gonna make it home to put him to rest? My community group stepped it up and helped pay for my ticket, watched my house, and took care of my dog, they even took me to the airport and picked me up when I returned. God is great, they helped me when I needed it the most and showed me what a church group was for. When I returned back to FL I re evaluated my life and prayed and made the decision to come home, I learned life was too short to be away from my family, let alone I hadn't made peace with my brother whom as well as my family I hadn't seen in 5 years...

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I shared this occurance with my Community group and the leader keeps asking me when I'm going to post it so here goes:
Have you ever had an encounter that took your breath away?  I did a few weeks ago.  It was a rainy afternoon.  I was headed out to visit with family members.  As I was on the freeway, there were places where it was raining heavily and then stretches where it wasn't raining at all.  I exited the freeway and was headed west.  The sky was quite dark with heavy clouds.  All of a sudden a light began to pierce through the clouds.  It quickly got brighter and brighter.  The first flash of thought was, "Is this how it will be when Christ comes back to earth to call us to heaven?"  It flooded my heart with joy and tears actually came to my eyes at the thought of His returning.  Within a few seconds I realized that it was an airplane with its lights on, decending from above the clouds, getting ready to land.  It obviously was NOT His return to take us out of this world.  But that wasn't and isn't the point, and the blessing still remains.  It still takes my breath away to contemplate that one day we will be taken up in the air to meet Him and leave this world with Him.  The thought that still brings tears to my eyes for the opposite reason is knowing that there are still those that I love on this earth that would not be in that group who rise to meet Him.  Then I ask myself, am I doing all I can to shine His light on those whom I love who need Him?

-Anonymous