Awesome, Bec! I'm glad you found your way back to your spiritual path. Good for you!

Yay, Bec! I'm also proud of you!!

Also, thanks everyone for your support and encouraging words regarding my spiritual debate with my mom. It's so great to hear everyone's personal experiences, but it touches my heart so deeply when you nice folks are right there to lift me up when I'm down! PEACE TO YOU ALL...

Thanks Teri, Dogstar and Kim! :D :D I didn't think I'd get that kind of support, but that's probably just me not giving myself any credit. ;) :P

Well, you should know us better than that, Bec ;). Seriously, finding that kind of spiritual peace is a good thing!

Good luck w/ the baptisim, I hope it goes well.

Sorry Dogstar. :embarass: :P Thanks, Torn Signs, it did go well. :D

Yes i have the photos... :naughty:

Oh yeah, the wet t-shirt contest photos.... :D

No, the massive purple bruise contest photos... :lol:

*don't hurt me* :(

:boxing: :slap: :headbang: :poke: :chair: :kick: :samurai: :cuss: :shoot:

:crying:

My mother and father were not religious or spiritual in the least. However I spent a lot of time with my Grandmother and she attended a Church of Jesus Christ. They were some major Holy Rollers. You know as in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues as told in Acts chapter 2 of the Holy Bible. However, they were all full of hate, bitterness, rage, and a judgemental spirit. Women weren't allowed to wear makeup, wear shorts, pant, bathing suits, short sleeves or jewelry. Women were not allowed to cut their hair or braid it. Men weren't able to wear shorts, bathing suits or jewlery. Men were not allowed to have a beard, mustache or long hair. They were constantly after me to "get saved". Thattotally turned me off to God and I totally rebelled. However, at the age of 16 I got pregnant and married and my mother-in-law at the time loved me with a motherly love I had never knew before. Ifinally seeen God's love through her. Seven years and 3 kids later her son left me for my best friend on our daughter's birthday and I totally turned against God. I hated him. That's when I discovered Wicca. I was a Wiccan for quite a while. However, I missed Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I studied and studied and discovered Christian Wicca. Yes, I know, some of you will gasp and then probably laugh and yell "That's such an oxymoron!" However it's not. I worship God the Father of the Holy Bible, The Holy Spirit who is Mother Goddess to me, and I follow the teachings of Jesus. However, I don't believe everything in the Bible. I beleive that much of it has been tainted. I also study the Nag Hammadi Library and The Apocrapha. I recently semi-came out of the "broom closet" with my family. They see the signs all over the house. I evenpainted on my front door window for Halloween "Happy Samhain" along with a pentagram. My fiance gave me a disaproving look but he didn't pursue the matter. I also am studying the tarrot cards and have done many readings on myself and only one on someone else who is a shaman. I have learned to be more open minded since I have last been here. When I first came to this board earlier this year I was such a "fundie" pain in the rear. I have seen the error of my ways. So I hope the slate is clean for me.

i know the tarid cards well,,,and,,ya,,know what i learned,,seeking my fathers,,wisdom,,lets you see,,all of these things,,as well,,my,,,by him all things consist,,powers and domions,,,,he will prove that he is lord....

<!--QuoteBegin-Lady Valkyrie+11-12-2003 10:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Lady Valkyrie @ 11-12-2003 10:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> However, I don't believe everything in the Bible. I beleive that much of it has been tainted. I also study the Nag Hammadi Library and The Apocrapha. [/b][/quote]

How do you know that what you currently believe is not tainted as well?

Perhaps you just need something easy to believe, you know, that feels all warm and fuzzy and requires no serious thought or commitment.

yes thats true,,everybody looks for the easy way,,out as far as me,,,ive never met the easy way out,,even good preachers,,will sugar coat the word,,if it will ofend some of there congaration,,on a sun..service or something,,,you got be strong to walk with the king,,,push away pride your own thoughts,,everything really that A HUMAN WOULD DO,,,