1 year

Its been 1 year since my family and I joined a church.  I've always been a believer..For a while I had the wrong attitude though.  I always told myself that just because I didn't go to church didn't mean that I didn't believe.  That was an excuse to not go..To busy, to much on my plate.  I could not even give God an hour and half of my time. My next thought was that I was a good person so I was a sure to get into heaven.  Wrong..that isn't my descison to make.  I have to admit I have a lot to learn.  I got very lucky and have found the perfect church for my family and I on the first try! I love the kids program and I love the message every week.

Its funny to because it seems like every week when I hear the message from our Awesome Pastor Louie.  Its always exactly what I need to hear.  I know I am still very rough around the edges but I am trying and praying daily for Strength.  Putting your faith into someone that we don't quite know, or have to learn about is the ultimate challenge.

I am proud we made it a year this far and happy to have found a great church for us. 

Why do people run?

I guess I don't understand why people run when you talk about God, or religion or the bible.  Its very confusing to me.  I would think believing would be the easy part.  Why question it and just go with it.  Really I think the thought of dying and there being nothing else is the disturbing part.  I want to imagine a life with no worry.  With someone who loves you more than anything and would not treat you badly like people on this earth can.  No hurt, sickness, Just PURE love..


What stops you from believing?

I didn't know

Wow, there is a lot I didn't know about becoming a good loving and loyal Christian.  Things are not as they seem and I'm afraid for everyone that I know.   I do know one of the first steps.  Learning the 10 commandments.  They are the root and stem to all that we need to know to make sure we get into heaven. 
Learn them, Live them, Love them.  Most of all follow them.

The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)
1	“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2	“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3	“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4	“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5	“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6	“You shall not murder.
7	“You shall not commit adultery.
8	“You shall not steal.
9	“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10	“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”