My Background

If I am being honest, I am not sure there is a way that you can completely start a journey without influence BUT your purpose is where the big question is asked.

Let's take a step back in time so I can explain my viewpoint: and remember this is just my personal opinion and my experience and that does not mean it is the end all be all.

1996: Before I was even born, my family started to experience some pushback from other family members when my parents were deciding where to get married. My great-grandma was very strict when it came to religion and her expectations of what a good Christian woman and family looked like. It even got to the point where she told my mother she would not be attending their wedding if they did not get married at her church. This began the pushback from my parents.

1997: When I was born, my parents decided that getting me baptized was something they did want to do, with slight influence from their parents. If I'm being honest that is really the last religious thing I know or could even remember about my life until recently.

Throughout my life, there have been moments when I felt pulled in that direction, but feeling alone in that was terrifying. I grew up on the East Coast where religion was not something that was talked about often, and there was even only one Christian girl and one Christian boy in my whole high school, and they were together. Looking back how silly of me to feel alone, but that's what I felt, and it pushed me further away from asking questions and exploring the pull towards God.

I know I have talked about my Grandma on here, but that was the icing on my cake of pushing me over the edge and away from religion at the time. I did not have the tools in my toolbox or the knowledge and hope that I have now to understand what was really happening. My Grandma was my best friend, and the only close link to religion, so when she died while I was in high school I could not understand how God could be real if he was going to take her away.

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