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When I became a Christian as a teenager, I had this feeling that God was going to immediately zap away all of my problems and that all of my temptations to steal and have sex and hang out with the wrong people would vanish. Boy, was I in for a surprise. Nothing around me changed. My parents kept drinking. My father kept molesting me. I did not stop my old behaviors. I just felt a bit guilty for what I was doing. The only thing that did change was the fact that I read my Bible and prayed every day. It wasn't something I felt like I had to do. I really wanted to. I felt peace in the words I read. And I always felt God's presence with me.....even during the bad times, and even when I knew I was not living as He wanted me to. I think the problem was that as much as I wanted to walk on a Christian path, I truly had no idea how to even start. None of my friends were Christians at the time, even though they went to church. So I had no support system. There was nothing to replace my negative behaviors with. And being a rather shy girl, it wasn't like me to go on a big search for new friends. The day came for me to leave for college and this was life-changing in many ways. In a sense, I felt like I was getting let out of prison. I was free. But with freedom comes great responsibility, and I did not do so well with it. My old ways began to manifest themselves more intensely....only now I had absolutely nobody to hold me accountable. I stopped going to church at all. I pretty much put God by the wayside unless I really was having a problem. I practiced my Christianity when it was convenient for me to. And I spiraled deeper and deeper into a hole, still trying to fill it in the wrong ways. A couple of years into college, I met my husband. And he became a Christian not long after we met. We became engaged soon after that, and that brought its own dilemma. You see, my husband was a Catholic and I was a Methodist. At the time I had no idea what kinds of issues this would bring. But I was in for a very rude awakening. To get married in the Methodist church would mean that our marriage would not be recognized by the Catholic Church. Therefore, since we would be "living in sin", my husband would no longer be able to take communion. Also, his family, who were devout Catholics, refused to believe we were "truly" married. But I had no desire to become Catholic. And even if I did it would mean six months of instructions. We did not feel we needed instructions. After all, we had been dating for three years by this time. And to top it all off, I was pregnant. Yes...pregnant. So delaying our marriage for six months of instructions was just not going to be happening. So we married "in sin". And for the next seven months, my husband was denied communion, even thought we went to the Catholic church each Sunday and we were both Christians. When our son was born, he was baptized into the Catholic church. And on that same day, we were allowed to renew our vows in the Catholic church so that my husband could partake of communion. (We found a very nice priest who was not so strict with the rules). The next few years brought us a baby girl and our first house. By this time, our love had been tested with infidelity and job loss and mental illness. But God was the glue that held us together. And it seemed that as long as we put Him first in our marriage, things went well. But as soon as we took our eyes off of Him and started doing things our own way, the problems would overwhelm us. During this time, I found myself growing more toward the religious right. I listened to Pat Robertson and James Dobson, and I marched in Washington, DC at pro-life rallies....as well as in my own city. I wrote newspaper articles which strongly supported censorship of certain "questionable" artwork and literature. We found ourselves joining another church because we were tired of juggling two different churches. .The Seventh-Day Adventist Church, which we joined was very loving but very inclusive. And it was also very legalistic. I suppose at the time, we were looking for that in some sense. It felt "safe". But when the legalism made us feel unworthy in so many respects, we began to not feel quite so safe. We also did not like the way it was so judgmental of other religions. It did not seem very "Christian" to us. We were looked down on if we did not observe the Sabbath in the way other members thought it should be observed. If we disagreed with any of the church doctrines, we were looked down on....and not made to feel like we were truly welcome. We always felt a bit ostracized. Throughout all of the changes in churches we attended, I had come to realize something. God had remained the same throughout. He was unwavering. He loved me regardless of how perfectly I obeyed the law. He loved me despite all of my shortcomings. And he was always there for me, regardless. I realized that, unlike many of the churches I had attended, God's love was totally unconditional. When he gave His life for me, He did not die for a perfect person. He died for someone who does not have a clue about living anywhere close to perfection. When I realized all of these things, I began to see God in a new light. And as a result, I began to walk with Him in a different way. |
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