DoxBro's Blog of Life

Hello readers!  Todays post comes from a conversation I had with my mom a few weeks ago during breakfast.  Specifically the part where my mom quotes one of her friends who said, "Being Roman Catholic isn't the same as having a personal relationship with Christ." This article isn't edited or revised... but I wanted to get something posted. Hope my candidness is honest and hopefully not overly brutal.  I posted a status on Facebook with some immediate thoughts, so I will post the status here and simply elaborate on it. Here is it: I got a huge laugh out of a brainwashed way of thinking when I heard this: "Being Roman Catholic isn't the same as having a personal relationship with Christ." Are you kidding me? Although the Catholic thing doesn't apply to me, I feel as though any religion which incorporates Structure, Tradition and over a thousand years of credibility is being bashed because these 'superstar' preachers don't li ke it. In

Thank you for visiting! It's been a long day... thought I'd share some unedited thoughts. I think Forest Gump got it right when he said, “Life is like a box of chocolates.” Almost everyday we wake up not knowing what we’re gonna get. Hour to hour and minute to minute our plans, thoughts and emotions change. And with constant change going on in the world we live in, it's inevitable our spiritual life will go through change as well. For just as life is unpredictable, so is our spiritual life. Not knowing where we'll be tomorrow, it's difficult to feel prepared for anything. The question is, how do we prepare for the unknown? Is it possible?              I’d rather not say anything too far fetched, but I'd like to think it’s possible to spiritually prepare for the unknown by striving to be obedient to Christ and His church. In our struggles, we must be critical of the world we live in and question everything we see and hear. We must learn to filter and censer