"In Medjugorje, I found the answers to all my questions"

When I was 20, my life made no sense to me. Did God exist? What was the point of living? Why make any effort? Life was easy, everything was cool.

In business school, I learned that cheating, lying, and stepping on others' to get ahead was the real world. What was the point of all those good values I was taught if everyone just did as they pleased anyway? Besides, did good values even exist? Being nice was stupidity. I liked the nightlife much more than the daytime, going to clubs almost every night, flirting, drinking, going out with someone just for the fun of it, since everyone seemed happy doing it. 

No matter how hard I tried, I felt emptier and emptier. I went to college parties where everyone seemed to have a good time and wore artificial smiles. These were like banquets where the food had no flavor and didn't nourish you. I experienced the betrayal of friends, the disappointment of love, etc. Did love and truth exist? What was real life? 

I asked myself: does truth exist or can each person decide for themselves? Why believe? Who is God? Why the Catholic Church and not another one? And above all, don't ask yourself any questions, rush from party to party, without taking the time to think about it, so you don't go crazy. Who said that life was beautiful?

I was in this frame of mind when I heard a person who did not believe in God say that she was sure of his existence and that she had made a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. She ended her sentence by saying, "I can't tell you what I experienced there, you have to go there yourself to understand, I have never felt so much peace as in that place."

So I went there. I had nothing to lose and I especially did not have peace: so why not try? I can't describe what I experienced there either, but I found the answers to all my questions and even more. I could no longer doubt the existence of God. I have never felt so much peace as I did in that place.

Life is beautiful and it has meaning!

Adapted and translated from www.clubmedj.com