Getting Started

Hey Everyone. I was getting so drawn up in everyone else's blogs that I decided I just really needed to start my own. So....let's get it started.

For my first topic, I want to talk about church. It seems to be the popular thing to do, and what can I say? I want to be popular too.
How about this? All these people saying they don't know whether to leave or stay. Yeah, I was in that boat too. But for me it was because of a reason I mentioned earlier this week to another person who had also grown up in our church: it is WAY HARD to grow up in a church where everyone knows everything (well, think they do anyway) about you. I mean, c'mon, I was practically born into this church. I'm a Solomon sister. Can't really get anymore "CFC churchy" than that, can you? At least, this was what it felt like when I was in a bad mood. But now, let me say this: I love my church. absolutely. positively. I have so many ideas for things I want to do in our church. And as hard as Satan is shoving me and others, it's a dead give away that something big is happening! No, you don't think so? Try this. Go visit about 10 other churches...OUTSIDE of re-net. Sometimes we don't know a good thing when we have it. It's like taking your parents' marriage for granted. Ya hate the way they bug you when you're a teenager, and all you want is to make them go away. But now having seen what it's like through the eyes of my less fortunate friends who have parents who abuse them or each other and are out every weekend sleeping with a new partner, my God, how grateful I am for the loving parents He gave me. In other words, you get out and see more churches, you will come back dying of thirst to where that Living Water is flowing. Okay, I'll admit maybe our church isn't where God wants you right now. Maybe not. But a true family sticks together...even when they think can't stand each other.

Believe me, it's about to get real good...