Thursday, July 21, 2005
religion brings about the craziest conversations. i'm not versed enough about our catholic faith to debate things. especially when those who are trying to "share" their perspective is so rooted in the evidence of scripture. i fully know that our catholic faith is not just scripture but also tradition. things that i find make it so much fuller and makes me appreciate it all the more. but i can't explain these things to someone who is strongly protestant. i don't know how.
i wonder how my parents did it. cuz my dad was raised methodist, mom strongly catholic. and i know my dad doesn't agree with a lot of things that catholics do, but i also know that he sees the similiarities and basically focuses on our relationship with Christ. that's all that really matters, right?
i don't know who God has in store for me. i find that He's sending people my way that i have to justify my faith to. it challenges me and forces me to get to know my faith better. but i do hope this is a growth process. i'd rather marry someone who i don't have to argue religion with. but maybe it's one of those refinement by fire. i have a long way to go.
i wonder how my parents did it. cuz my dad was raised methodist, mom strongly catholic. and i know my dad doesn't agree with a lot of things that catholics do, but i also know that he sees the similiarities and basically focuses on our relationship with Christ. that's all that really matters, right?
i don't know who God has in store for me. i find that He's sending people my way that i have to justify my faith to. it challenges me and forces me to get to know my faith better. but i do hope this is a growth process. i'd rather marry someone who i don't have to argue religion with. but maybe it's one of those refinement by fire. i have a long way to go.
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"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the
greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks
nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, live, and love."
~unknown
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"live a life that others will remember years from now, NOT because it pointed to you but because of how it pointed to the One who made you."
~ Mark Hart, the Bible Geek
"we grow up learning to become self-reliant, but really we need to be God-reliant"
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"never wound hearts that love u, never give them the endless pain, because wounded hearts are like roses that never bloom"
"there comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that they'd be happier if we'd let go"
