After decades of trying everything else. Take my word for it, I've done it all; self-help didn't work, New Age didn't work, and Pentecostal Bible Studies (felt weird).
The Church literally reached out and pulled me back in.Now before you roll your eyes, listen to my story. I hadn't thought of going back to the Catholic Church for decades. I didn't resent it as many do, I was just neutral.
During this time, two events happened that HAD to be the hand of GOD, because they were not part of my thinking at all. While flipping stations, I saw a handsome middle-aged man and a beautiful girl deeply engaged in conversation. It was EWTN, and the show was "The Journey Home." After watching for a short time, I got that it was about conversion TO Catholicism. My first thought was "Why would somebody want to convert TO Catholicism?"-since so many seemed to be running away from it.
Well, that's the question, isn't it? Out of curiosity, I watched the episode. Afterwards, I was impressed by the quality and logic of this young woman's reasoning, and kept watching "The Journey Home."
Secondly, I had taken out a book from the library about prayer beads. No thought of the Rosary at all-I kid you not! BUT the woman who wrote the book did have a fascination with Rosary beads, and included all the prayers therein. Upon reading the Apostles Creed, my heart leapt to my throat, especially the words "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting, Amen." Those final words, the rythm and cadence of the sentences jumped from that page into my soul, and I began to cry. "I know this prayer-I know this prayer by heart!" I thought to myself, excitedly. I ran down to tell my husband, but he thought I was stark raving mad.
