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Video Reflection on Dying #12--Looking Back on My Life, part 6: WHEN GOD SAVED MY LIFE!
Claude LeBlanc NOTE: I'm writing these reflections on the lessens learned during my life as I face death due to ALS at the request of my children, but I thought there might be something for others to benefit from. My hope is that you will be blessed by the blessings of my life.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
I probably should have placed this before my previous reflection, but it really doesn’t matter. In it, I questioned whether my decision to enter religious life at 18 was based on my faith or my mother’s. I didn’t mean to suggest that I was without faith. In fact, there’s never been a time when I thought God didn’t exist. My questions were, “Does He know and care about me?” I received the answers at about age nine.
It was the day of my mother’s cousin’s induction as a deputy sheriff. After the ceremony, we went to his house for a reception. Since I knew they had a swimming pool, I came prepared. No one else wanted to swim, but since I had lessons a few years earlier, my mother gave me permission. Thinking I remembered everything I was taught, I jumped right in, but flailed. Quickly, I ended up at the bottom of the pool.
It was then that I felt what seemed like a hand on my back, pushing me up to the ledge of the pool, only there was no one else in the pool. There was no one outside of the pool. There were no wet footprints leading from the pool anywhere. No one in the house had realized what had happened, either. After some time, I realized that it had been God, or my Guardian Angel acting on His behalf, who had saved my life.
As you can imagine, this experience has had a profound impact on my life. Since then, I’ve never doubted God’s awareness and love for me. My new question became, “Why?” At first I thought it was because I was destined for a very special mission that would become clear to me later on, but looking back, I’ve lived a very unremarkable life, so there had to be another reason.
The only answer that has made sense to me is, “Because He loves me!” I’ve shared this story throughout my life, but with this caveat: “If God loves an ordinary guy like me, He loves everyone else in the same extraordinary way, including you. He may not do what he did to me; but He’ll do whatever you need!”
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