Growing up was easy for me. I did what everyone expected. I was who the community brought me up to be. I changed as I grew up, because I grew away. I started making my own decisions, taking care of the consequences and not regretting one moment.
I was born into an LDS family, not the hard core my ways the only way type. More laid back, but still my parents wanted us to go to church. I did, and as I got older church just didn't fit. I stopped going in high school, not because I didn't agree with the teachings or because I was doing wrong. I just fell away.
I'm not a bad person because I don't practice my religion.
You may wonder why this topic, but it because I find it hard to relate what I'm feeling to people who are active. They ask why I still call myself LDS, and what I did that makes me not want to go to church.
I just want them to know, just because I don't sit in sacrament with you, and help hold the hymn book doesn't mean I don't believe.
There have been many times in my life where I felt protected, and watched over by something more than this world. That ever calm that surround the hardest storms is there and I can't deny that, and I wont. I have faith, what I lack is the practice of my religion.
So quit judging people. Stop making them fell less of themselves for not being you. Understand that some show love in other ways, that good people come from all walks of life.
2 comments:
AMEN!!
by no way am I an extremist but what is it that the bible says???? Something about faith without works is dead indeed. But the belief... yes, is the hard part.
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