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I
am from a little Eastern European country called Lithuania,
where Christianity is the dominant religion, and where a baby
in his first days in the world is made a Christian. I‘ve
never been an atheist, but I never called myself a good
Christian. It was the time when I was going to the church
every Sunday, not just for praying, but to help the priest and
to sing in the church’s choir that I had God in my heart the
most, even though I would ask my parents why they baptized me
without asking me if I would like to be a Christian or not.
All
my life, as I remember, I couldn’t be a good Christian and I
couldn’t understand the meaning of the Christian religion.
But I was looking for meaning. I would read a lot of books
about Christianity, while continuously asking the priest for
help. I could say that I felt and I believed that
“Somebody’s” watching over me, but I could not call
myself Christian.
Life
without God Almighty’s guidance is difficult, scary, and
lonely wherever I went. I was looking for God all the time,
and yet I felt that He was so close to me. I was feeling
God’s help all the time with me; I felt like He was talking
to me. I saw how He was taking care of me and letting me find
the way of life that He had already chosen for me. I was
trying to understand a lot of signs that he was sending me
daily almost like He was speaking to me.
I
am the second child in my family, and my mother’s delivery
pains with me were much harder than with her first baby. I was
very lucky to survive the delivery, and I believe God saved my
life. After two really serious accidents later in my life,
which people said that nobody could possibly survive after, I
started to really appreciate my life. I felt how fragile human
life is and that only God knows how long I will live.
God
let me trust Him every minute of my life and this helped me to
enjoy my life even when I was sick or feeling bad. I know that
God is giving us everything, wanting us to appreciate Him, so
we will understand that He is doing it just for us.
All
that has changed is the quality of my life when true understanding of
God came into my heart… |
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I
had a car accident right after my graduation exams, and I was
told to stay in a bed for no less than six weeks. I could only
move my head and arms, but with God’s help I nonetheless
finished my school and enrolled in university while still
lying in bed. Even my doctor couldn’t believe that I
accomplished that much! Most people would be screaming with
pain or asking for a pill to make them sleep. It couldn’t
just be luck - it was a miracle from God for sure. After this,
my faith increased but “Somebody” still kept me away from
church. I can now understand what was going on - for me,
church wasn’t the way to God.
True
understanding of God, what I had been wanting for so long and
which would be my only way to real happiness through the
calmness of my soul, I found through my husband. How we met
each other was one of God’s miracles too. In the beginning
of our relationship we never talked about religion, and we
never had disagreements about it. One day, when I was in a
really happy mood because I had just met an old friend, my
boyfriend (in that time we still weren’t married) told me
that he wanted to give me the best thing in his life - faith.
God put the correct words on his lips that day, and I was
really interested to hear what he had to say about the Holy
Qur’an, about miracles written in it, and about the meanings
of every motion of his body while he prayed. Though it was
just one conversation about the topic, it was enough to make
me read as many books as I could get my hands on. With every
book, with every page, I started to understand what I missing
in my life, that is, what I had been looking for all those
years when I was asking priests for answers. Books would talk
to me - God was talking to me through books. I found answers
to a lot of questions; I found calmness in my soul while those
around me were still searching.
I
became Muslim just a few months ago, and it’s amazing to
feel the miracle of a rebirth in faith. God loved me so much
that He let me be born again though I was already 21 years
old, an age when I was able to appreciate His amazing gift.
Now I am a Muslim. Nobody can believe how different it is to
be Muslim!
God
made me see the sun in a different way than I used to see it
when I was a Christian. The sun has a different meaning for me
now. I know that this sunshine that God is sending to us
everyday is His way of showing us how much He cares about us,
how much He loves us. Because of His love, we do not feel
cold, and we can see the world in many colors. God created
night in order to show us how amazing His light is. He made us
trust Him that after a cold and dark night, He will bring
forth a nice, fresh morning. In this way, God is talking to
us. He gave us eyes to see His words in every miracle.
I’m
so happy and thankful for God’s gift to see this world anew
- to finally appreciate my life. He gave me a new and fresh
light in my life, and now I can see His words all around me in
a different way. Everything I do, everywhere I go, God is
saying welcome to me. In miracles that He is showing me, I see
that I’m on the right way, that He is with me. The world
didn’t change in one day, it didn’t even change in 21
years. All that has changed is the quality of my life when
true understanding of God came into my heart.
I
wish the whole world would change too. Now people are angry
and tired of looking for calmness through worldly success.
They are tired of hating each other, and of being jealous of
one another. Nations try to survive by fighting each other;
countries try to live in pace but cannot stay without war.
Each day, the world is sinking deeper and deeper down. The
only way to stop it is to make Islam the way of life of
humanity. With God in everybody’s heart, we will find and
enjoy the life that we are now just dreaming about. We will
build an optimistic future for our children; we will not be
scared to meet each other and live as a single humanity.
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