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Charles Colson, was a special aide to President Nixon. One day, he drove to a secluded spot on the Atlantic seacoast for a few days. His purpose? To answer some questions about life.
The first night, he took a pad and wrote across the top "Is there a God?"
After reading and thinking awhile, his thoughts drifted back to a day when something unexpected happened.
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He and his two boys were shoving off in a 14-foot sailboat that he had bought for them. The youngest, Chris, was in control.
Suddenly, "the most marvelous look came over Chris' face." Colson could hardly take his eyes off him. Then, without realizing it, he found himself talking to God and thanking him for this "wonderful moment."
Minutes later, he was shocked when he realized what he had done. "It had been a spontaneous expression of gratitude that simply by passed the mind and took for granted what reason had never shown me."
"It assumed that personal communication with this unproven God was possible. Why else would I have spoken unless deep down I felt that Someone some- where was listening?"
At that moment of spontaneous gratitude, faith in God was born in him. ___________________________________
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