The most popular video link sent to me and my friends yesterday via Facebook, e-mail or twitter had to be the Anne Rice video over at the social networking/Christian ministry website I Am Second. I Am Second is a mix of internet and grassroots outreach designed “to help people discover their purpose in life.” One of the features of the website is a series of video stories from celebrities and average folk like you and me . This week Anne Rice’s video testimony is their latest inspirational offering.While many people may have heard about her return to her Catholic roots and her Christian faith, I think Rice has spoken on camera very little about the depth of her beliefs and the long journey she went on that brought her back to God. Fortunately, she has broken that silence and shares one of the most inspiring accounts of conversion I have heard in a long time.In the I Am Second video she describes herself as a “Christ haunted” atheist and discusses eloquently her grief over her loss of faith during young adulthood and describes beautifully her surrender to the idea of no longer living in a godless world.It is her description at the end of the video of what she feels when she pictures Christ on the cross that moved me the most and seemed so fitting as we move closer to Easter Sunday, but the entire story is available for your viewing below.
Beliefnet
Advertisement
posted March 26, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Thank you for sharing your testimony. Very inspirational. I pray that those that are lost will see the light, the light of the one and only, God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. You are a mighty Woman Of God. Again, thank you.
posted March 27, 2010 at 11:56 pm
For Anne Rice, I enjoyed reading the CHRIST OUT OF EGYPT series. I am an Angican Catholic (grew up Lutheran) I almost lost my faith when my best friend died,but realized in time, I couldn’t give up my belief in God-that helped me get through the deaths of my parents later. I didn’t care much for “Dark Shadows’ or any vampire stories, but preferred “Star Trek” and science-fiction,”MFU”,but none of those made me give up God-and nonone of my professors in college could do so. Fortunately, I had professors who believed in God too.Keep the faith, and like a friend says,”Never Give Up.” I hope to never do so and your story convinces me to do liewise.