After graduation I lost interest in medicine. Being raised in communist country, I was looking for deeper meaning in life, and without it I thought I could not exist. Leaving Azerbaijan and coming to the United States was a great opportunity for me to start a new beginning.
Before leaving Azerbaijan I was given a special gift on my birthday - a daily Moon calendar by one of my medical school classmates. Since that day I realized that all my days were accurately predicted by the calendar. So I started to plan all important events according to the calendar and everything that I planned on lucky days according to the calendar was successful.
The calendar was due to expire on December 31 2001. The last note was saying that today’s event will change your life. I remember that at this time I went to the party at Armenian Church in Brooklyn. I was expected to pay 40 dollars to attend this party. Normally I would skip the party if I had to pay for it, since 40 bucks for a party was a big money for me at a time, a jobless man ready to take any odd jobs and had not enough money.
I decided to go because of the calendar prediction. There was a lot of dancing and food. I met few new people. But I expected something else was going to happen during the party, but nothing was happening. At the end of the party I was feeling more sad and frustrated, since nothing was happening. I decided to leave. Then suddenly I heard a voice: Robert come over. That was archbishop Anania, the leader of Armenian church in Brooklyn. He noticed that I feel sad and invited to sit next to him. There was another person at the same table. His name was Luciano.
Luciano was a member of Unification Church, a friend of Anania. But at the time I did not know him. He could not speak Russian- a language commonly used by Brooklyn armenians and asked me to translated for him from people in congregation. We talked a lot. At the end he invited me for New Year celebration at the New Yorker Hotel.
At the New Yorker hotel I met other members of the unification community and was very inspired. I felt like I was a part of a big family, surrounded by brothers and sisters.
Before meeting Luciano I attended Jewish “Flame Society” in Manhattan. During one of the meetings, the rabbi was asking questions from Genesis : Why Adam and Eve felt naked , what was the fruit that they ate? Who was responsible for the fall? Interestingly at the end of the discussion everyone realized that rabbi does not know the answers. After reading Divine Principle I found clear answer to those questions and many others. I knew that Divine Principle is a new truth that was given to humanity.
I helped Luciano to design a website for the Family Olympics which he was going to establish here. We got together pretty easy, and soon I moved in his apartment. I started study at Unification Theological Seminary extension in New York City, and graduated in 2005. During this time I actively participated in life of Unification Church, several times we met with reverend Moon at his home in Terrytown, New York.
I was fascinated with rev. Moon humbleness and desire to surve and help others. Hundreds of people gathered in his house for morning prayer, watching him to talk and pray with other religious leaders from different faith tradition. At the end of the prayer meeting he had breakfast ready for all of us.
I happily married in 2007 to Japanese lady. In 2008 we already had first child. Now we have 2 children.
After years of struggle with my medical profession with God’s help I found new calling in surgery and now on my way advancing in my new career.
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