Personal Narrative: How Religion Changed My Life

The results from my summary reveal that my number one personal value is religious. I was not surprised by the outcome at all because I am very much into my religion. I love to have my own time when I can sit back and read my bible in peace and reflect back over what I just read. Leaning on the Bible gives me a sense of peace, and it reassures me that I can face and overcome any obstacles.

Religion never crept its way into my life like it has for others, i was never indoctrinated into the cult of religion not out of my own choice but because of the choice of my mother and father. Even though children have the freedom of choice to not believe in a deity it can be more difficult than putting a giraffe through the eye of a needle to not accept religion when your parents are so religious and they ram it down your throat until you can't breath anymore and promise the idea of you burning in hell as a threat even though pascal's wager is ridiculous and illogical but it still makes it so hard to not accept god not even out of fear of “god” but from the very real punishment of your parents.I however was given a choice and my parents never

I am writng these thoughts and addressing it to you, Kyle, not with the intention to come to an agreement (in fact, I would be very upset if a Christian would completely agree with my point of view), but to listen what you have to say and learn from you. To get the knowledge not only about the religion, but about how people live their life, and you Kyle, are insightful, in my opinion. Although our opinions are far apart I still can tell that I enjoy listening the ideas and standards you propose.

I was raised in a catholic family. Our parents raised us to believe that the catholic religion was the one and only true religion. We went to church every Sunday and was expected to find a person to marry within our religious beliefs. Which meant finding someone who was already catholic or convert them to Catholicism. As I grow older and started to question some of the catholic beliefs and expectations. So when I found the person I wanted to marry and we had to petition the Catholic Church to see if we could get married. My fiancé was not catholic and had been previously married. Two no no’s within the catholic religion. I couldn’t believe that a questioner was going to decide if I could marry the love of my life. We decided to get

I gradually became confused and appealed to God consistently for help to discover an exit plan from my trauma and abuse GreenWave spiritual and -love-ecstasy senses #53. However, there never came protection from the recurring injury in and around me that continued to transpire in daily life. Thus, I began to visit various houses of worship to seek help to heal and a place to escape. Eventually, I became baptized and spent time in summer bible school with a belief this would remedy my situation. I could memorize the required verses from the bible. The part I enjoyed most about those summers was being in nature. It seemed these houses of worship often repeated a story, which since conception everyone was a born sinner. Therefore, by one means or another, this helped to provide hope I could defeat the enormous obstacle home life

“Mommy, why?” I asked as children from every century have asked. At the age of 5, I had just attended a birthday party for a friend from a Muslim family. Colorful balloons meant a fun celebration, but I did not understand colorful hijab. This is my first memory of encountering a practice of religion different from my families’ practice. Innocent observations prompted my questions. My mother explained how people of the world choose different belief systems to live by. We live in an increasingly diverse and global population. I expect these conversations occur more frequently today. Whether, in hush tones or epic monologues, their words affect the future generation’s worldview. Ancient ancestors of Sweden first told their children epic tales about many gods, until Christian themes altered their story.

When I was growing up, I attended a Christian school. Consequently, the curriculum was based off of Christian textbooks, and every Thursday we would attend chapel and be taught lessons from the Bible. As a result, I was heavily shaped by the lessons taught at that school.

Now, I am going to request a very religious thing. Something, I would never thought to do before. However a co-worker's family is going through some rough times at the moment. I do realize not many folks connected with my face book find themselves overly religious. Yet I do want to ask for a exception this time. Therefor I am asking you guys to offer prayers, strength, courage and/or good vibes to Sharon Dixon, her husband and family.

It was 1996. I had written a guest column for The Dispatch for a number of years when, out of the blue, the Lord gave me the opportunity to write a monthly religion column for the paper. I easily say that it was the Lord who opened this door for me because I had never heard of a religion column written by anyone other than a pastor. Yet the Dispatch took a chance on me, just another stay-at-home mommy at the time, and today, I’ve written this monthly religion column for over 20 years.

Christ has changed my life. Christ in Youth or CIY is a large organization that has multiple events around the United States to spread love and knowledge about Jesus. It was the summer of 2014 and church camp was located in Macomb Illinois. I some of my friends and a couple of youth sponsors had pushed me to go and I thought it would be something different. While I was there I was led and realized the I was loved and Jesus cared for me. On the way back I started to think about how my life is going to change with the decision that I made to follow Jesus. Throughout my years before CIY I had thought about what life has to offer and what the true meaning or goal of it is. Jesus gave me meaning to life for and a goal to strive for. Changing the

When I am not spending my time within a class room, I spend most of my time trying to better myself as a person spiritually and physically. To enhance my spiritual side, I invest my time reading books about religion, watching lecture videos or even attending a lecture at a mosque with the Iman. Obtaining knowledge about my religion helps me to develop a connection and better understanding of my beliefs, instead of blindly following them. Not only do I obtain knowledge about my religion, but also of other religions as well. By doing so, it helps me develop an understanding of other’s beliefs and their perspective on certain topics and why they believe what they do. Religion in general simply fascinates me and I strive to learn more each and

Growing up in a Catholic home, going to a Catholic grade school, and attending Mass every week all resulted in everything being handed to me. Receiving a religious education was a given, and did not truly matter to me. When it came time for high school, I started attending Timberland High School, which was a complete shift. I went from a class of sixty to a class of five hundred and I was in shock. I knew zero people and it was all up to me to make friends and fit in. At first everything was fine, but as the weeks went on I realized that I felt miserable. I remember crying in the bathroom every morning before leaving for school because I was so alone. I told my parents that I wanted to switch schools and they agreed to send me to St. Dominic

Prayer can be a sincere and compelling way of fostering and enhancing a faith community. Just as Jesus did with his disciples, “ he taught them how to pray,” we must do the same. (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2008, p. 59) Prayer life is a component of our Catholic faith that should be a foremost priority. It’s a unique way to communicate with God personally or with a group. Praying is that free gift from God, which can bond and inspire others with few words. After reading this assignment, the first thing I thought of was an experience with prayer, but since prayer is such a considerable part of being a Catholic, I had a difficult time settling on a single prayerful experience, so I prayed upon it and there it was. For me, the simple idea of praying for others and including the faith community, can be seen in my experience at a local diocesan

Growing up as a Christian, I was always told that we were in the middle of a war, with God on one side, and Satan or the Devil on the other with no middle ground. This, of course, was not an actual war. Yet, during the summer of 2012, I felt as if I was fighting the devil.

My experience with religion is all life has consciousness. There has been a misunderstanding to me as a child when I see those who regard it as arrogance when we take our rightful place in the universe. And what is our rightful place? I grew up in a baptize church in N.C and the church of Christ in Conn. The baptize church I attended had all black members and the church of Christ I attended had 90% white. How did I know where my rightful place was in the universe? It is in gaining awareness of our true selfhood. I think you can get a better idea if you think of it in the correct sequence.