Why It's Important To Find Religion On Your Own Terms
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Why It's Important To Find Religion On Your Own Terms

You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink.

Alexa DeClue
Nov 13, 2017
Missouri State University
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Why It's Important To Find Religion On Your Own Terms
Alexa DeClue

I was sitting at service the other day and had a moment of awe. Coming to church is like coming home for me every Sunday. My world may be crumbling around me but I still have a firm foundation in my faith and I don't know if this if I would have been forced into going to church.

I was always so happy for friends that I knew that found comfort in going to church and felt strong in their faith. But that was not something that I ever felt like involving myself in. I had no urge to pick up a bible and read verses because I did not connect with anything on the pages. I just got this uncomfortable feeling when anyone talked about religion around me because I didn't really get where these individuals were coming from.

But eventually, on my own terms, I found they need to explore my faith. It was hard to put my finger on what I was missing, I just knew that there was something more that I was meant to do. I lead myself to church and I found what I was missing, all in my own time.

It is just like anything else in life. Trying to focus someone or something to do something is not going to make them want to do it. That person is going to fight against what they are being forced to do. This is how I felt about religion before I ventured towards it. I head this overwhelming feeling that my friends that wanted me to join them in religion were trying to place me in this tiny box that I wanted to be nowhere near.

You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.

Finding religion was a very freeing experience for me. I finally got where all of my friends were coming from. They weren't just spouting out nonsense, they came from a place of purpose and meaning. The moment that I realized, I knew that I had been missing out on so many amazing things.

Religion isn't going to be something that everyone is going to believe in, that is fine. But I have learned to never force someone into believing in the word of God or make them becoming apart of something that they don't understand.

But you should find religion on your own terms.

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