Jewish Harvard Professor Encounters Mary
A Jewish Harvard business professor who was flirting with atheism and pleading for guidance received an unexpected answer to a prayer: the Blessed Mother, arrayed with supernal ineffable splendor.
That occurred, most interestingly, following a strange supernatural experience while “walking in nature” — sorting out despair — and spending a year asking God to reveal Who the true God — and religion — was.
It began, did the conversion of Roy Schoeman, soon after he had reached a point when — despite stellar academic achievements (he attended M.I.T. undergrad, and became a Harvard professor at 29) — life had lost most semblance of meaning. Although raised a Jew, he no longer believed in the Bible or God.
Stressed and distressed — wandering one morning through the peacefulness of nature — he received, without warning, “the most spectacular Grace,” as he puts it. “The ‘curtain’ between earth and Heaven disappeared, and I found myself in the Presence of God and like a very intimate conversation with God: seeing my life and experiencing my life as I would see it after I died and looked back over it in the Presence of God. And I saw instantaneously how I would feel about everything after I died.”
One of two major things he was shown: how much time he had wasted lamenting how little he was loved — when in fact God’s Love was there, all around him — and “all the time I had wasted doing things that would be of no value in the eyes of Heaven.”
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A Jewish Harvard business professor who was flirting with atheism and pleading for guidance received an unexpected answer to a prayer: the Blessed Mother, arrayed with supernal ineffable splendor.
That occurred, most interestingly, following a strange supernatural experience while “walking in nature” — sorting out despair — and spending a year asking God to reveal Who the true God — and religion — was.
It began, did the conversion of Roy Schoeman, soon after he had reached a point when — despite stellar academic achievements (he attended M.I.T. undergrad, and became a Harvard professor at 29) — life had lost most semblance of meaning. Although raised a Jew, he no longer believed in the Bible or God.
Stressed and distressed — wandering one morning through the peacefulness of nature — he received, without warning, “the most spectacular Grace,” as he puts it. “The ‘curtain’ between earth and Heaven disappeared, and I found myself in the Presence of God and like a very intimate conversation with God: seeing my life and experiencing my life as I would see it after I died and looked back over it in the Presence of God. And I saw instantaneously how I would feel about everything after I died.”
One of two major things he was shown: how much time he had wasted lamenting how little he was loved — when in fact God’s Love was there, all around him — and “all the time I had wasted doing things that would be of no value in the eyes of Heaven.”
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