As of late, I have been following my own path. I had decided that I was to let no one make my thoughts for me. This is a very difficult thing to decide. It begins with a story.
I spent my whole childhood doing and believing what I was told. "I was raised in church. Therefore, I am a Christian." This is just one of the things I identified with growing up. And of course, I was the kid who played the Christian game perfectly. Stand when it's time... Cry when it's time... Sing in the choir... Never speak my disapproval. I suppose I thought that to question authority or teaching was to be completely insubordinate. That was wrong of me and created a byproduct: a lack of anything learned first-hand.
So, I knew everything about my faith simply based on what I had been told. I almost never read the Bible, but professed to know it well. This brought me to question my moral and political upbringing. It all seemed so simulated. At the moment when I realized this, I began to step into a bigger, more informed world. The world of liberation.
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