Do you feel lucky?

Skye17

I’m very happy that I’m a Christian, and grateful to God who called me to himself. I started looking into Christianity at the age of 27, having been an agnostic up till then. The evidence convinced me.

In my view whether you are a Christian or not doesn’t come down to where, when and to whom you were born at all. There are Christians all over the world, and people convert to Christianity from every religion. If someone wants to know the truth, they will find it.

Some examples of conversions to Christianity are here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Christianity

Books about them include Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi, Found by Love by Rahil Patel (formerly a Hindu monk), and Not God’s Type by Holly Ordway (formerly an atheist academic).

Then how do you account for all the other millions of people born in this world to other faiths and not faiths? They all believe or don't believe in their own contexts. No one is right or wrong. Realistically, it comes down to who you are as an individual.

I’m very happy that I’m a Christian, and grateful to God who called me to himself. I started looking into Christianity at the age of 27, having been an agnostic up till then. The evidence convinced me.

In my view whether you are a Christian or not doesn’t come down to where, when and to whom you were born at all. There are Christians all over the world, and people convert to Christianity from every religion. If someone wants to know the truth, they will find it.

Some examples of conversions to Christianity are here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Christianity

Books about them include Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi, Found by Love by Rahil Patel (formerly a Hindu monk), and Not God’s Type by Holly Ordway (formerly an atheist academic).

I feel very blessed, fortunate, and grateful.

‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction…’ (2 Cor 1:3-4a)

I think ‘religion’ is quite different from ‘belief’ and ‘faith’ in God. I agree, there are a lot of terrible things and people connected with ‘religion’

I no longer call myself a Christian. For me personally it was quite damaging, not in a dramatic way but in a slow and persistent way. I feel "lucky" that it doesn't have the hold on me that it used to. It was such an ingrained part of my life, since birth, that it took a long time to feel free of some of Christianity's more insidious aspects. That said, after studying religion for my degree I realise now that many religions at a basic level have a lot in common which I think devalues belief in a divine being as the monopoly of one religion. If anyone asks I call my a "humanist". I think "luck" plays a huge part in everything that happens in our lives.

I consider myself so lucky, I have a lovely family, lovely home, wonderful husband, no money worries, great pets. But what I consider my luckiest thing is the affirmation of an afterlife, which has happened so many times to me, in times of extreme loss and sometimes totaĺly out of the blue. I have no idea where these experiences have been sent from but I have absolutely no doubt in an afterlife, for this I am truly grateful.

Only place luck comes before work is in the dictionary.

This. So humbling.

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Sorry, just realised this thread is in Religion/Spirituality my post was more about 'life lucky'.
I wasn't brought up with any religion and or Christened, my belief system is now Pagan, so yes I feel very lucky have it in my life as it informs my path so to speak!

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For me lucky is not quite the right word, but I do not now what would be a better one.

I am very grateful to God that He let me be born in a family that believed, even although my parents were not regular church goers (which probably is why I am a regular attendent at Mass).

Mother, aunts, grandmothers etc. read me bible stories from picture books for children before I learned to read, taught me to pray before sleeping at night, Christmas and Easter were very, very big events. I still tend to visulize the Virgin Mary exactly as she looks in my mother's paper nativity scene which was a focal point of my childhood Christmases.

I have often wondered why it is the women in the family who talk to small children about God and the Baby Jesus? No man, in my childhood did so, unless he was a Reverend or a priest!

To me believing in God means that the difficult times of my life did not leave me hopeless, even when I was greatly distressed and the good times may actually be better too - but how does one judge that? After all, I do not feel what others feel.

I feel very lucky in respect of having an the awareness -
that we are living in such times-
that to be right here on my comfy chair, with an iced tea, wondering what to have for dinner and whether to go to town tommorow or make a start on some decorating is-
the most massive stroke of luck, which most people in the world will never get.
It makes most of the humdrum of life that can appear mundane actually extraordinarily precious.
If you change I've got to change the bedding, water the plants to-
I get to change the bedding blah,blah it all becomes a bit humbling!

I consider myself lucky to live in a country with decent if not perfect public services, utilities and transport networks, also a faulty but functioning democracy (bring on PR).
That's why people from countries where these things don't exist want to come here.

To me religion is nonsensical and I feel lucky despite this! I have five grown up sons, two teenage granddaughters and a successful YouTube channel. I love where I live and the surrounding area is lovely.

I don't feel lucky or unlucky as I can't believe in whatever that is but I do have a faith that feels deep and has helped me become wiser . It doesn't stop the pain from whatever hits me in but I wouldn't want to live without it .

Luck or serendipity?

We have a few Chinese people in our church who have fairly recently arrived in the country. They are very faithful and very devout - possibly because they have experienced an oppressive regime where they used to live. Similar when we reach out to some of the African nations - they are so grateful and so totally followers of Christ they make me ashamed. They live it every day and are very convicted. Me, I spent years just ignoring it all and thinking it was just an oppressive right wing means of control.

SpinDriftCoastal

It comes down mostly to where, when, and to whom you were born.

Very true.
Luck is having the opportunity to get out of that situation.
As I did.

I was brought up a Roman Catholic in a mainly Irish community in England, I’m always surprised there wasn’t an Angelus Bell in the street.
Having Irish Catholic parents religion was not an option.

I spent a lot of my childhood petrified of the nuns at school, petrified of committing a mortal sin and convinced I would end up in hell.

As an adult my relationship with God is much better.

I don’t feel it necessary to go to Mass/Church very often and I am happy to go to CofE, RC, CofI, we all have the same God.

I suppose what I am saying is religion was a chore as a child and young adult and I took God for granted.

I think now I am more appreciative and spiritual.

I can’t help but believe although I doubt. When my son was diagnosed with a life limiting illness I swore at God and blasphemed. In so doing I realised that I did actually believe.

Identify as Jewish but am not religious.
Not lucky, not for the past two years anyway, the family have had a dreadful time of it. But I believe luck is random anyway so don’t take it personally especially seeing as the family have enjoyed much better times in the past.
Believe in a God but not a God that only cheer leads a certain religion.

not in life as I've had so much loss

but I have been happily married for almost 3 decades (I'm almost 50) and I've had a lovely marriage and even though one our children (now adult) has a severe disability we've all stuck together as a family and made the best out of life and that has always been very important to me

I don't believe in God but I feel blessed with this

SpinDriftCoastal

It comes down mostly to where, when, and to whom you were born.

Yes! I truly believe this.

I consider myself and our family to be fortunate in many ways.

I feel I’m quite a spiritual person but not the sense of Christianity r other formal religions.

I’m not sure how to explain really, but at times, even in times of crisis I can still feel hope and an inner peace.

I think anyone born into a civilised country, with good free education and access to healthcare to be fortunate.

I’m not sure I’d consider myself either “lucky” or “unlucky”

It comes down mostly to where, when, and to whom you were born.