Church Revolutionized My Life - beta mata (ereader for comics .txt) 📗

“Our God is an awesome God……” If I had to choose my favorite Church song it would have to be that one, I think all the songs are magnificent, but this song, wow um I mean…. there is just something about it that makes me love it and its just extraordinary so to me.
I never was much of a what you call, “church person/people”, but because my grandparents were engaged with church and they made their kids go to church, I guess my mom made me go to church? I don’t really know why she made me go, maybe she thought it was for the best? All I know is that I was going because I had to, I got baptized, I made my communion, and just last year made my confirmation. My Tia Perla was so involved with Church when she was little and then she got into college, all of sudden she discontinued going, I guess college was always in the way. But anyways, in 6th grade she got me to go with her to Laredo, for Pro-Life. (Pro-Life is where you walk for two miles, trying to stop abortion, but walking is not the only thing you do, you also pray, sing, dance, chant, etc. It didn’t matter what you did as long as you thought it would help get the message across.)
We go every year even to this day, I did go because I wanted to end abortion, not because I liked church because to be honest at first I didn’t, I thought it was boring and ineffective. But then two years ago (2010), I started confirmation and to be confirmed you had to live your search retreat. I didn’t really want to go, I thought it was so stupor, I thought, “first of all, I hate church, and now I have to spend the weekend there? No thanks!” Well I couldn’t care less at the time about being confirmed, but it was either go to the search OR get grounded and no phone, so of course I went. First day, boring, they would not SHUT UP, second day, it was so much crying, singing, dancing, and group sharing, that day was the best I got so close to my group that by the third day I didn’t want to leave. I cried the last day, I can’t really tell you much about search because we made a promise not to reveal everything, due to future searchers.
Well search was immense for me, and I strongly encourage anyone and everyone to live there search. Well after my search, search number three, I got better and looked at things differently, for a while. I am going to be honest, once your out of there you’ll change for a while and then you be back to normal because of school. School is a challenge, but I went back to church so that I can keep in touch with the new me, my church buddies are always there for me and I will be there for them.
A couple months passed after that and then Father came up to me and asked if I wasted to go to Washington DC, for Pro-Life but that it was going to cost $400!!! I really wanted to go, and so did my Tia Perla, so we started selling fruit cups, pies, worked at the bingo, etc. We did all we could and finally we raised enough money, we took a plane from San Antonio to Atlanta Georgia, from there we took another one to Maryland, I don’t know where exactly we stopped, all I know is that it was a couple of miles away from Washington DC. We stayed there for about four to five days. We went to museums, stores, church (a lot), Mc Donalds, looked at important buildings and facts about it, and Pro-Life, which was from the white house all the way to the capital building, it doesn’t seem like a long walk but there was a lot of people so yea it kind of was. The point of walking from the white house down was to get the presidents attention, but there is still no changes. The most important thing is that we don’t stop, we keep fighting for those babies.
Now I’ve talked about all my experience with hating church to loving it, but this memory is my favorite one because not only did it revolutionized my life but someone else’s too. The nursing home, it’s a horrible place to be, no one wants to be there but because their kids can’t take care of them, they place in a nursing home. What they don’t know is how much it affects them, at least until they are placed there when they are older.
I used to have this lion that someone gave to me, she was my everything….. she helped me through everything, I named her after the girl who gave it to me, Shelbey. I took her with me one time in December and this lady, she was so happy and she cried when she saw us, she said, “ aww I am so grateful that you all came to see us, (she smiled, tear coming down) I never have visitors.” Just that made me cry and I stayed with her and talked to her and got to know her and I saw how she hurts, just like me. And I realized that she hurts more than me, so I gave her Shelbey and she cried even more, and then I cried and we sat there crying together and hugging, I didn’t even get to meet anyone else but it was worth it. The next time I go I hope to see her and hopefully she gets better. I thought that shelbey and I would be together forever but giving it to this one lady was the best thing I had ever done.

ORDER OF EVENTS ☺
(1.Laredo - Pro-life)= this has made me realize that not only I care but so many others too ☺ its like all people actually care, why can’t people just put it back as a law! I mean just cause it didn’t fully develop, doesn’t mean its not human.

(2.ALL Search’s)= I lived search 3, it was the greatest thing that ever happened to me, if my mom hadn’t have made me go I would have still hated the world and church. Life is actually better than ever.

(3.Washington DC – pro life)= I thought Laredo was amazing and I still do but wow, watching so many and I mean SO MANY people walk for pro-life was so amazing. People chanted, sang, dressed up like their role models who also believed in pro-life. I remember they chanted, “hey, hey, hey, hey, obama your mama was pro-life!!!”

(4.nursing home)= I love this one the most cause it happened to not only change someones life but mine as well. I used to have this lion that someone gave to me, she was my everything she helped me through everything, I named her after the girl who gave it to me, Shelbey. I took her with me one time in December and this lady, she was so happy and she cried when she saw us, she said, “ aww I am so grateful that you all came to see us, (she smiled, tear coming down) I never have visitors.” Just that made me cry and I stayed with her and talked to her and got to know her and I saw how she hurts too just like me. And I realized that she hurts more than me, so I gave her Shelbey and she cried even more, and then I cried and we sat there crying together and hugging, I didn’t even get to meet anyone else but it was worth it.

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Publication Date: 02-01-2012

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Dedication:
i dedicate this to all those who are involved with church and most of all to my church in LP, they have helped me so much