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When I was growing up I hated church. My parents didn't ever take me but I still hated it for some reason. I hated just the thought of it.
I remember a couple things. I remember my Aunt Nancy [she died when I was probably like 5 so it was ether at 5 or sometime before that age] took me to a church. I assume it was a Catholic church since dad's family was Catholic [they're not now] when I was little.
And I remember for some reason seeing my cousions once in a church when I was little. I have no idea why I remember that. I didn't know they and I ever went to a church when I was a child.
Those are the only two times I remember being in a church as a child. The other time was from April 08 to like sometime during the Fall of 08. Than there was a church that only lasted a few months last year.
Why did I hate the mere thought of church? Did something happen in ether my aunt's church on my cousion's church to cause me to hate it later on? I seriously wonder. And I have no idea what could have caused me to turn against a place I only went to a few times in my child life.
I know I hated church because when I was on the playground my friend gave me an invintation to her church. I rudely just let it fly out of my hand.
I mean a kid just doesn't start hating a place she only went to a few times in her life for no reason. But my question is,why?
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Comment by feet breath on September 5, 2013 at 4:53pm
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Thank you,sister. Your good memories remind me of Phil. 4:8. :0)
I mean dad used to pray before Sunday meals and before Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. He did some kind of Catholic prayer. We used to have Sunday meals at grandma's. When I was I think in like 4th or 5th grade she had to be taken to a nursing home. She died a year or two later in May of 05. My mom used to tell me a few things she believed. She got Christian teachings mixed up with JW teachings.
It was more than just church though. Mom bought me Bible kid videos. I remembered the Adam and Eve one was on. For some reason I hated it. I had a JW children story Bible book [she had gotton it I think before I was born]. I didn't know JWs had false beliefs. I didn't know it was a JW book. All I did know was it had Bible characters in it,I hated it. As for dad's Sunday prayers,I hated them. Thing is,I never expressed to any of them the hate I felt.
I don't know why I had so much hate when I was a little girl. :-/ Something had to of changed me. For I remember taking that same JW book [I didn't know anything about the JWs. I just knew God existed] and put it on my toy piano stand. Than I started singing "God is so wonderful!" That was before the hate started coming in though. And this happened one time. I was looking out the kitchen window and was thinking "I'm waiting on dad like I'm waiting on Jesus". No idea why I thought that. Not sure how old I was.
It's odd someone who had so much hate thought that. The good news though is the wait is over. Jesus found me. :-)
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