Thursday, December 1, 2016

Personal Choice - #2

In this blog entry im going to get a little personal and talk about my spirituality and how it has impacted my life. I was raised in a Christian household by two strong Christian followers, or so I thought at the time. I had grown up going to church and Sunday school, it was just something that I did and I never thought twice about it. When I got older I started to grow tired of going to church every Sunday because I felt that it was just pointless. I knew I believed in God and I had a relationship with him but I just didn't feel like taking the time to go to church on Sunday mornings. Despite my bickering and attitude my mom would still wake me up every Sunday to go to church and I wouldn't fight it. I knew that my faith and my relationship with God was not that strong though I did nothing to strengthen it. Its not that I didn't want to have a strong faith, but I just didn't feel any motivation to. When I got to high school my motivation grew slightly stronger as I joined a few religious groups at my school and the leadership at my church. When my junior year of high school rolled around my faith became weaker than it ever had during my parents divorce. Most people blame God in their times of great destress, wondering why he would do this to them if he loved them, I didn't. I blamed myself more than I blamed God, but I forgot he was there for a while. After a few months I found my way again, and realized the big whole in my heart couldn't be filled by anyone but God. The crazy thing is was that I expected the whole would be filled by more material things such as my friends, technology, boys. Once I realized that the only thing that could make me completely full was God, I never went back. Since then, i've grown so much in my faith and have become stronger because of it. Spirituality is not something that I take lightly and I hope to continue to grow in it everyday. I enjoy this class because I have learned a lot about spirituality.

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