MY PARENTS WERE UKRAINIAN, AND WE WERE BAPTISED IN THE RUSSIAN GREEK ORTHODOX CATHOLIC CHURCH. UNTIL SOMEONE TOLD MY MOM ABOUT RELIGION. NOT RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. THINGS JUST GOT WORSE, CRITICISM AND JUDGEMENT CAME IN , FRIENDS CAME OUT. ISOLATION CAME ABOUT, AND THE LOVE OF GOD WAS NO WHERE FOUND. WHAT CHANGED, REALLY, GOING FROM ONE RELIGION INTO ANOTHER. JESUS IS NOT A RELIGION. HE IS A RELATIONSHIP. THERE WILL BE NO BLESSINGS TOWARDS THEM WHO START THE CRITISING WAGON, BRINGING ALL THE CONDEMNATION AND DIRT ON IT, TO THROW ON THE ONE WHO'S NOT LIKE YOU. THE STORY GOES, WHEN YOU THROW DIRT ON SOMEONE WHO GET IT ON YOURSELF, SINCE YOU TOUCHED IT. THIS IS WHY TRYING TO CHANGE THE JEWS DOSN'T WORK. IT'S A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, A PRAYER LIFE. WE CAN OFFER OUR OWN EXAMPLES, AND PRAY FOR OTHERS. THIS ONLY CAUSES DIVISIONS, AND STIFE IS NOT OF GOD. IT SEPERATES AND DIVIDES. TALKING ABOUT HAVING A LITTLE STATUE IN THE HOUSE, HOW DOES ONE KNOW IT IT'S JUST THERE AND NOT PRAYED TO AS AN IDOL. THEN THE SAME PEOPLE TAKE A VACATION TO ITALY AND SEE HUNDREDS OF STATUES OF ALL THE SAINTS, ST. PETER, ETC. AND NOT ONLY THAT BUT STAND IN FRONT AND TAKE A PICTURE OF IT .ANY THIING CAN BECOME AN IDOL. YOU CAN BECOME YOUR OWN IDOL, LOVERS OF SELF MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD, AND FELLOWMEN. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO COME INTO SOMEONES LIFE AND TELL THEM TO CHANGE THEIR WAY OF LIVING. THIS IS THE JOB OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. FAMILIES HAVE TRADITIONS. MY PARENTS CAME FROM THE TIME OF STALIN WHEN ALL THE CHURCHES WERE TORN DOWN, STRIPPED NAKED AND MADE INTO COMMUNIST MEETING HALLS. THIS WAS THE TIME OF THE FAIME, WHEN HE TOOK EVERY UTENSIL AND CRUMB FROM THE HOUSE, WHEAT WAS NO LONGER FOUND, ANIMALS STARVED. ONE YOUND GIRL, AT THE BRINK OF DEATH FROM STARVATION, SMELLED THE BREAD FROM THE COMMUNIST BAKERY, AND WENT THERE AND CRYED STANING OUTSIDE, WITH HER HANDS OPEN CRYING FOR HELP JUST A CRUMB, THE BAKER CAME OUT WITH A KNIFE AND STARTED CUTTING HER HANDS OPENED TOWARDS HIM FOR HELP, SHE DIED OF A BROKEN HEART IN FRONT OF HIS BAKERY. NOT EVERY ONE WHO SAYS THEY ARE CHRISTIAN ARE FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST. FOR MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN. CHRIST DESIRE COMPASSION, YES WE MUST GROW SPIRITUALLY, BUT HITTING AND TRYING TO RAM A COW DOWN THE TROAT IS CRUAL AND INSENSITIVE. THE BABE NEEDS MILK. ONE WHO IS CLOSE TO THE BOSEM OF THE FATHER, WHO IS CARING AND NURTURING, KNOWS WHAT TO GIVE. SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED NOT TO ACCEPT THE THINGS SOME ARE DISHING OUT FOR YOUR OWN SPIRITUAL HEALTH. BREAKING THE BREAD OR SHARPENING THE SPEARS, TILL THE BREAD GETS HARD AND TURNS INTO A ROCK. THE FATHER SAID, IF YOU ASK BREAD I WILL NOT GIVE YOU A ROCK. IF YOU FEEL YOUR GETTING A ROCK.
