I Am Christian (roman Catholic)

“It was then, upon that bright morning, alone on my bicycle, that I was hit with an intense awareness. Sweeping through me and mingling with a heightened sense of well-being, physical as well as spiritual, there burst upon me the shattering conviction that I was, I existed. I was Being, separated from the abyss of Nothingness. I simply laughed out loud suffused with my good fortune. The privilege of existing at all covered the whole world and everything I looked at seemed to smile back, luxuriating in the beauty of glory of its own reality.” ~ Frederick Wilhelmsen describing an experience, when he was a nine-year-old in the pre-WWII Detroit Catholic Ghetto, after which the Universe would never be the same for him, quoted in “Citizen of Rome: Dr. Frederick D. Wilhelmsen” (which unfortunately is no longer online) See also http://bit.ly/2kx53XQ , http://bit.ly/1YzQzD0