You gotta have faith, faith, faith....

Nothing like a little George Michael to get you going in the morning. lol

If you read about my new years 5 year plan you saw on there I want to find a church. A church - the people not the building. Everyone has their own opinions of what a church is. We call a building of worship the church, but the bible defines it as the body. Regardless I want to find a place to connect with other Christians who are supportive and happy to be alive (which isn't always the case, let's be honest.)

I was raised to have a strong faith and I thank my parents for that. That is a huge part of where my morals were defined and who I am as a person overall. But I have seen the dark sides of churches. As a child, I grew up in a RLDS church. That's a branch of Mormon if you are unfamiliar with the terms. I remember being happy and always at church, but have one image that overwhelms the rest of them. It was around the late 80's and there were some disagreements with our church and the headquarters in Independence, MO. From what I understand (I was pretty young) there was a conference coming up and there were female instructors. Our church didn't believe that women belonged in the priesthood. So they refused. This ticked off headquarters and they came down to basically take over the church. I remember the last time we went on a Sunday. I remember these people beginning services from the pulpit and then shortly after our past and elders came out and sat in chairs in front of them. It became a 3rd grade contest of who can talk to the loudest. IT was simply awful. We stopped going to church at that point.

I began attending my grandmother's Baptist church after and enjoyed it. MY parents didn't go but it was in distance for me to walk to. Something that amazed me in my lifetime was the fact that my grandparents on my dad's side always went to different churches every Sunday. My grandfather went to the RLDS and my grandmother the Bible Baptist. The didn't let faith interfere in their marriage and lives. The believed in a common ground and attended both church's functions. They just agreed to disagree because faith is personal to each individual.

If only Conservative Christians would stop judging others and Liberal Democrats would not generalize Christians as crazy. Will we ever meet in the middle?