While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
My journey has been good, and by God's grace, I have not changed.
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
I believed in God my whole life.
I never stopped believing in us, and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be.
I believe with all my heart that God still destines for us an even better future and the opportunity to continue to serve as an inspiration to the world.
Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.