It occurred to me that after reading the Ghost Horse Hills blog introduction that my thoughts on large churches with large congregations might be viewed as a criticism of those establishments. This is not the case. How could it be? For seven years, five days a week, for 3/4 of an hour a day, my time was devoted to religious studies in a denomination that boasts the largest churches and cathedrals the world has ever known. It didn't end there. Every Sunday we attended mass. On Holy days like New Years, Christmas, Epiphany and the first Friday of every month, my obligation was to attend mass and on most of those Holy days, serve as an altar boy. This was done out of love for my faith. At one time, my goal was to enter into Holy orders and become a priest. My religious training was complete. My training in faith left much to be desired. That education would start when a good friend expressed that there were different ways to worship and understand the word of God. My faith started to grow when my attention was turned to the natural world. My belief is not to worship the natural world but to gain an understanding of God from what the natural world presents.
Why? Because the message God has for all of us is to be found in the natural world and in an easy-to-understand form the Creator presents his case.
Why? Because, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Why? The answer is to be found in Revelations 4:11. Because, "Thou art worthy Oh Lord to receive glory, honour and power for thou has created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created."
A friend offers an interpretation of the last part of that verse "for thy pleasure they are and were created" that his mother passed down to him. It was that God gets a 'kick' out of us and what he created. That interpretation suits me perfectly.
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