The Man Being Interviewed was Someone who had Spent Most of His Life Without a Single Thought of God
By LauraAboli
I was listening to a podcast the other day. The man being interviewed was someone who had spent most of his life without a single thought of God. Not in anger or protest, as he described, just in quiet certainty that the world made perfect sense without Him.
He was the kind of man who trusted facts, who found comfort in control, in ‘science’ and who saw faith as something others needed. Until the night his wife went into labour with their first child.
The complications came fast. Alarms, rushed voices, medical jargon he couldn’t follow. One moment he was holding her hand, and the next, a surgeon was pushing him back, saying, “We’ll do everything we can.”
In that sterile, echoing hallway, something inside him broke. For the first time in his life, he explained, he had nothing left to hold onto. No logic. No certainty. Just fear—and a crushing sense of helplessness.
And so he prayed. Something he’d never done before.
It wasn’t planned. It wasn’t even conscious at first. Just a cry from the deepest part of him. Please… please… God…
That’s when everything changed.
He described how he hadn’t made the conscious decision to pray. He didn’t weigh the thought, or reason his way to it. It just came—sudden and raw. Instinctively. A desperate plea, a silent cry that rose from the deepest part of him. And right then, in that moment of complete surrender, he felt it.
He said it without hesitation—he felt God.
Not as a passing comfort or imagined presence, but as real and steady as the floor beneath his feet. He said it was like waking up to something that had always been there, only now he finally saw it. There was no voice, no vision, no flash of light. Just a knowing. A Presence that wrapped around him and filled the space that fear had just emptied.
He knew, that God was real. That He had always been there—quietly waiting, patiently loving, never giving up.
His wife and daughter survived. But the real miracle, he said, happened in that hallway—where disbelief died and something far greater was born – his unwaivering faith in God.
I enjoyed listening to his story, it’s a perfect example of how our Creator is intrinsically present within us and how sadly, many need to be pushed to the edge in order to tap into what had always been there.
Luckily, it’s never too late for God, his patience is limitless.
But atheism, I just don’t get it.
Original source: https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel/71802