Answers to Your Questions > What do you believe now? > What do you think now about your experiences of God when you were a nun?
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Hello Mary,
I have just finished your book and found it very thought provoking and relects my own experience, albeit via a fundamentalist Christian past. I am probably now in much the same position spiritually as yourself – open and grounded.
However, I have one question. In your book on several occasions you speak of the peace of God flooding thru you when you begged for help in trying circumstances. The way you tell it seems authentic. So… what was happening then do you think?
Peace and love,
Carol
Good question, Carol!
I did often experience peace in times of trouble when, as a nun, I sought God in prayer. At the time, I of course immediately attributed that peace to a Supreme Being.
I can still reach a similar peace, without seeking God, by quieting myself in times of trouble, stilling the confusion in my mind, and centering myself.
Identifying our interior states, whatever they may be, as messages from a Supreme Being seems dangerous to me. We human beings experience many things. We can change our inner landscape by dwelling on positive or negative thoughts, by feeding resentment, by opening ourselves to love, by wherever we choose to take ourselves psychically. Sometimes we even surprise ourselves by finding ourselves capable of doing things we hadn’t been able to do before. I’m not comfortable attributing all of that to God.
Peace to you, too,
Mary