Week of November 16-22: Memoir Post
Growing up in a Christian, church-going family, religion was taught to me at an early age. The type of person my parents strived for me to be was based off of Jesus Christ and the church. I was always taught that I am saved by grace and that I should always do my best to do God’s will and to trust in him. As a child, this seemed a lot easier than when I got older. Children see things in such a perfect light. Children are not skeptics. Even in the Bible, God tells us to see as children. He tells us to believe as they do.
As I started high school, I became exposed to many new ideals and my faith began to dwindle. How could these radical stories be true? Even though I didn’t stray from the morals of Christianity, I lost faith.
Even beginning college, I was unsure about what higher power there was, if any. My freshman year of college was filled with a lot of stress and pain and there was nobody to go to. I went though a lot of changes that year and finally realized the summer before my sophomore year what was missing and what I needed. It took a lot of pain and suffering for me to understand that I do not have all the answers, but faith and trust in God is all I need. Even though I’ve been sick through this last semester, I have faith and trust in God that everything will turn out okay. As long as I try my hardest, He will help me get through it all. I know little, but I do know that faith is all I need.
