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To: GonzoII

That sort of sounds like me. I sat in confirmation class in sixth grade and had a teacher that said if you are not ready to give yourself 100% to God and the church, you shouldn’t be here. So I didn’t return. I was not ready to make that decision. And because class started at 8:00 am on a Saturday. Seriously. I thought if sleeping in is more important than being confirmed, I’m really not ready to be confirmed.

Fast forward 25 years and I’m back where I started, I hope a little bit smarter. I searched, I learned. My husband used to tell me that I was the biggest defender of the Catholic church and could recite the doctrine and history of the church better than anyone he knew, so what was I afraid of? I have faith, I believed, but I was just a text book of Catholicism while my husband felt and lived his faith. It’s the only way I can describe it. I am still on that journey but think I am getting closer.


7 posted on 04/01/2011 12:50:16 AM PDT by MacMattico
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To: MacMattico
"I was just a text book of Catholicism while my husband felt and lived his faith"

Try adding 15 minutes of prayer to that everyday..regardless of feelings. ;0)

10 posted on 04/01/2011 1:17:57 AM PDT by GonzoII (Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea...Quare tristis es anima mea?)
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To: MacMattico

Be it 1 year or 25 years, it is a process, a journy, a time to discern.


14 posted on 04/01/2011 3:21:08 AM PDT by Biggirl ("The Best Of Times, The Worse Of Times", Charles Dickens)
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