03-04-2005, 02:32 PM
I feel just the same as you both do - I cannot put a date, a place or a time to it, but he has been there for a very long time.
How do I explain it so others can also feel the way I do? - not an easy question to answer. I know several friends of mine who like to play Devils Advocate knowing how deeply I feel about religion, and therefore I tend to chose my words very carefully. I honestly have no idea how my children feel about the Good Lord, and I have never tried to push them in any way, because I do believe that each must find their own way. Sometimes if one pushes too hard, it can have the opposite effect, just as it nearly turned me away from religion and stopped me actually entering the Church as I had wanted to do for years as I grew up. That one person nearly destroyed all that I had come to believe - and he was the Church Minister - his dictative ways were certainly not my ways.
But I stuck to my own beliefs and do believe that he has guided me through incidents in my life that I would otherwise not be here typing this today.
How do I explain it so others can also feel the way I do? - not an easy question to answer. I know several friends of mine who like to play Devils Advocate knowing how deeply I feel about religion, and therefore I tend to chose my words very carefully. I honestly have no idea how my children feel about the Good Lord, and I have never tried to push them in any way, because I do believe that each must find their own way. Sometimes if one pushes too hard, it can have the opposite effect, just as it nearly turned me away from religion and stopped me actually entering the Church as I had wanted to do for years as I grew up. That one person nearly destroyed all that I had come to believe - and he was the Church Minister - his dictative ways were certainly not my ways.
But I stuck to my own beliefs and do believe that he has guided me through incidents in my life that I would otherwise not be here typing this today.
Always enjoy life - and remember there is always someone worse off than yourself - treat others as you yourself would want to be treated.