Wow, I can't believe how long it's been since I wrote anything in this damn journal. Well, today is a new day. The last year has been by far the weirdest of my life, but I am finally in a wonderful place and am actually going to to try to take a more active role in the SG community. This site is still one of the most amazing places on the web to me, and I would like to be more a part of it. I have been lazy or shy in the past, but, much like Tony Soprano after being shot by Uncle Junior, I have a new lease on life and a new carpe diem attitude.
Yesterday, I was a good son and went with my mother to church for Mother's Day. She goes to one of those evangelical Pentecostal churches and while I try to keep an open mind about everyone, even crazy right-wingers, this place never ceases to make me want to vomit. I won't go into the specifics because I am sure you all have a good idea of the kind of church I am talking about. However, as much as I hate it, I find going to this church every few months to be an invigorating experience, and I would you all do the same every once in awhile. It does two things.
1) It makes you realize that, crazy beliefs aside, the majority of the people who make up these Christian Right congegrations are good, honest people who you wouldn't mind knowing. Their leaders are usually con men who have brainwashed them and played on their fears to the point that they are willing to support something so idiotic and anti-American as the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, but they do not truly carry hate in their hearts for anyone. If we are ever going to end the stupid red/blue divisions that have defined our country for the past several years, people on our side are going to have to take the first steps toward reconciliation.
2) It makes you appreciate everything about your life so much more. People in those churches are in such a forced state of happiness and are experiencing such a small piece of the wonderfully wide world that God created that it makes you realize the importance of being open-minded and open to new experience. I am always trying to experience as much of life as I can, and my visits to this church only reconfirm that conviction.
Yesterday, I was a good son and went with my mother to church for Mother's Day. She goes to one of those evangelical Pentecostal churches and while I try to keep an open mind about everyone, even crazy right-wingers, this place never ceases to make me want to vomit. I won't go into the specifics because I am sure you all have a good idea of the kind of church I am talking about. However, as much as I hate it, I find going to this church every few months to be an invigorating experience, and I would you all do the same every once in awhile. It does two things.
1) It makes you realize that, crazy beliefs aside, the majority of the people who make up these Christian Right congegrations are good, honest people who you wouldn't mind knowing. Their leaders are usually con men who have brainwashed them and played on their fears to the point that they are willing to support something so idiotic and anti-American as the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, but they do not truly carry hate in their hearts for anyone. If we are ever going to end the stupid red/blue divisions that have defined our country for the past several years, people on our side are going to have to take the first steps toward reconciliation.
2) It makes you appreciate everything about your life so much more. People in those churches are in such a forced state of happiness and are experiencing such a small piece of the wonderfully wide world that God created that it makes you realize the importance of being open-minded and open to new experience. I am always trying to experience as much of life as I can, and my visits to this church only reconfirm that conviction.
xoxo,
Blyss