My Weekend Christian Experience

This weekend I had the joy and opportunity to join my sister at her church. It is not a place I normally would have gone, but it really gave me perspective and reconnected me to an early period of my own search for faith and God. It was an evangelical experience and it started out with great music (and even though I do not necessarily worship in that faith, I love me some old gospel music), then they proceeded into the sermon for the day.

What it unlocked for me what how we connect to our faith. I remember a time when my search for God was driven by my fear of what would happen if I did not have God's love. When I am doing things I know that are against the plan of this high being, how can I ever find salvation? For me, it was coming into the realization that the truth that is given out in church is not necessarily the word of God... but the word of a man/woman with their own agenda. This is why you see many faiths becoming diluted with politics vs. actually preaching anything of value. Religion has done more to make us fear God than love God... which in turn has made it difficult for us to love ourselves. If God cannot love a sinner, and if I am a sinner, then where does the love come in?

When we worship through a vibration of love, we move into a place of alignment with our higher nature. We understand that it is our imperfections that make us imperfectly unique. Our flaws connect us to humanity, but in the same breath we are all God. When we move into a place of unconditional love for self and other, we then move into alignment with a higher energy. We move into a place of acceptance, not only of others but of self.

It really was a great experience and I am thankful that she allowed me into her world. Do not be afraid to step into those places, we learn so much by sharing, and you do not have to agree with everything that happens in those places, but if we are unwilling to even walk through the door, how will we ever move forward.

Much love!

Mike

xoxo