The year 2015 is the year when everything flipped for me spiritually. Church and Christianity are all that I had known my entire life. 2015 is the year everything about those, once intimately acquainted spaces stopped making sense to me. I became alienated from everything and everyone. Was God even real? Because suddenly, for me, the church no longer resembled the beautiful bride of Christ that I had come to know. I couldn’t wait to complete the term of my leadership responsibilities and be done with that place, once and for all. I couldn’t stand the pretentiousness and hypocrisy. I couldn’t believe the passivity and silence of the church on social injustices.
We live, second to second; minute to minute—day in, day out as if that’s the way it will always be. We do not dare to imagine that a day (at least not in the imminent present time) will come when life’s clock stops ticking for us and most of all, for those we love.
To be disillusioned with God is one of the most shattering places that I have ever found myself in. To be disheartened towards the one person that you have always believed (and still know to be) is your only hope and anchor in any circumstance is deeply heart-wrenching.
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