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Fledgling Christian
- Author Chanticleera
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So I went to church yesterday. Twice. For the first time in years.
I enjoyed it, more than I expected. I have a touch of social anxiety - I rarely leave my house except for work. Yesterday morning I tried several times to talk myself out of going, but I knew I needed to.
It was a Church of...
So on my last blog post I laid out some problems I had laid out some issues I had found in my new Christian life. This blog post will be an update on those.
Trouble one: Lack of desire for sharing the gospel.
No real change here.
Trouble two: Prayer
I have not been 100% successful in...
I have been troubled by a few things the last few days. I have tried to not have high expectations as a christian. I figure there is a learning curve for one thing. For another, at the heart it's a relationship between me and God, and relationships take time to grow.
I have been obsessed with...
My dad was a scientist, an engineer, a mathematician, and a computer programmer. He was a very smart man. He passed the smarts to my brother, who is an airplane technician and radio technician.
I work in a call center and cried my way through high school algebra. Just saying.
At any rate, my...
I do. I was thinking about this on the way home from work today. I was trying to decide what to write in my blog post, and I decided to write about this.
When I was a younger, up through my pre-teen years, my dad always said he never had to worry about whether I was getting into trouble...
But not at the same time.
So it wasn’t actually a priest…but he kept calling himself one. He was a friend of my roommate, staying with us a few days.He graduated from seminary about five years ago, but never went through the ordination. He WAS drunk though. It was an …interesting conversation...
I have been extraordinarily lazy this weekend. I had all these wonderful plans of things to do — and got nothing done. Some of this was my fault. Some was not. I made the mistake of venturing out with my roommate to visit her mom. That trip that was supposed to take — at the most — three hours...
Yep.
As of three days ago. Well, really two days ago. This is the third day and its 6am.
What made me become a christian? Months of reading, talking, asking questions, looking for answers. I was raised catholic. Spent a few years in some baptist churches here and there. Got baptized twice...