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Hi! Welcome to my live journal. My name is Destinie. Obviously, I'm a big Sasori fan. Altogether, I just love Akatsuki in general. I have other fandoms as well mostly in anime and video games. If you like the things listed in my interests we should be friends. I promise I don't bite... hard. XD

My Beliefs

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7/24/08 11:01 pm
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I love God. I just recently got back into it. I've been listening to Joyce Meyer on the internet every morning. Everything she says just makes so much sense to me. It's like... she preaches what I've always felt was correct despite the way I've seen people claiming to be christians would act. She's like a breath of fresh air. And I love her spunky attitude. She's a tell it like it is kind of person. And she uses her own life experiences when she preaches. She shows how a Christian should live every day life happy. And.... it's so simple compared to the way I'd had things burned into my head growing up. So... simple. I wish I could show everyone how simple it is and how good it feels.

Now yes... it's simple, but I never said easy. lol The Christian life isn't always easy, but the rewards are awesome. Sometimes God just surprises you with the huge bundle of freaking awesome happiness right when you least expect it.

My problem right now... is sometimes I'm scared to witness to people. I'm scared to talk about God sometimes. Why? I'm afraid of being persecuted... It happens so much. Non-Christians are alot of times just as bad as Christians. They attack each other with so much hostility.... I don't like being attacked. I usually duck and cover.

I don't openly talk about my faith or witness to people like I want to.... I don't want people to feel like I'm a Bible Beater so I keep my mouth shut and let them bring it up. Then I might say something. Even still I try to make what I say as open and kind as possible.

But I still fear being attacked....

Hmmm... I won't be here for the rest of the weekend starting tomorrow. I'm going to Ren ([info]pretty_kozi's house. I'll be back late Sunday evening so I probably won't make another post until Monday.

Everyone be safe while I'm gone...
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  • [info]pervymonk
    7/25/08 04:25 am (UTC)
    I totally get what you're saying. It sickens me that people can't just talk about their beliefs. They always have be persecuted or have the fear of being persecuted. I don't really have an established religon but I do believe that God exists, whatever the name or number. I guess if people really wanted to classify me they could call me a Roman Buddhist? Lol :D

  • [info]babygomamon
    7/25/08 03:37 pm (UTC)
    I feel the same way... A LOT. I don't witness to people because I know that most of them would chew me out for my beliefs. And I don't try to push the faith onto people because it only makes them angrier. I used to have a friend who, whenever I would make a comment that was even remotely close to God, she would immediately try to "correct" me. It's terrible and I know hoe you feel. Don't worry about being attacked, because the Christian faith is about the personal relationship between you and God. You're not going to get extra points for winning people to Christ if He doesn't call you to do it. *hugs*

    • [info]pretty_kozi
      7/25/08 05:04 pm (UTC)
      Very well put. I got attacked once at work by someone that found out I was Christian and she bombarded me with tons of ridiculous questions. I felt interrogated. it's sad that it's the bad ones that give the rest of us a faulty name, and it makes people wary of anyone that opens their mouth to even say 'thank God'.

      The other problem is too many people get super offended by anything. They need to just stop for a minute to think and move on. No need to get offended unless it's for the right reasons. That's why I even keep mum sometimes unless someone brings it up in conversation. Religion is always such a touchy subject.

      Love and Peacea!

      -Ren-

  • [info]guruubii
    7/25/08 09:55 pm (UTC)
    I totally respect that people have beliefs, but my opinion is that beliefs are a personal thing, and I'm not fond of open discussion in public places about them. there are umpteen # of forums and places that people can talk about god, religion atheism, creationism vs Darwinism and all those controversial areas.
    BOTH groups take lots of heat from each other. mostly its people being defensive, most everyone has had someone telling them they are WRONG for believing or NOT believing in god, so it creates tension and people put up their guard.

    I think both sides have had too much arguing on either side and the topic is to personal for it to be like coffee pot talk.
    know what i mean?
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