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Nov. 3rd, 2013 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
promenyIt lightly snowed today, although it didn't stick to the ground. It was kind of odd because it finally got cold enough to for a couple of days and then it took so long. I don't mind it, so long as we don't get a massive snowstorm.
I went to church today, quite early because Daylight Savings Time ended today and I didn't want to possibly be late. Something happened during the middle of singing a hymn, where everybody got all harmonious in melody and it really felt like we were touched by the grace of God. That never happened before, at least since I've been around.
The sermon was good; it basically stated that you become righteous and saved through faith and not from the law, and if you have faith then you don't need laws to have good behavior. I think that is more or less true. It reminded me of growing up with my family from 18 to 28, where the laws of the family got stricter as they tried to control my behavior like a child, and as such I acted adversely to that. I had faith in myself, but I had all of these obstacles that blocked my personal growth and caused me to make mistakes. And when I moved out just a month after my mother died, those rules ceased to be and I became a much better person and a fully-fledged adult.
I'm not perfect, of course. Far from that. I had to really control myself to go a second day without drinking beer last night. But I'm definitely on the right tract, I think. Better to be free, than to be in an artificial system where people make mistakes for you and against you.
Still feeling a little odd, but I'll hang in there. I'm going to try to finish a book, which is nice.
I went to church today, quite early because Daylight Savings Time ended today and I didn't want to possibly be late. Something happened during the middle of singing a hymn, where everybody got all harmonious in melody and it really felt like we were touched by the grace of God. That never happened before, at least since I've been around.
The sermon was good; it basically stated that you become righteous and saved through faith and not from the law, and if you have faith then you don't need laws to have good behavior. I think that is more or less true. It reminded me of growing up with my family from 18 to 28, where the laws of the family got stricter as they tried to control my behavior like a child, and as such I acted adversely to that. I had faith in myself, but I had all of these obstacles that blocked my personal growth and caused me to make mistakes. And when I moved out just a month after my mother died, those rules ceased to be and I became a much better person and a fully-fledged adult.
I'm not perfect, of course. Far from that. I had to really control myself to go a second day without drinking beer last night. But I'm definitely on the right tract, I think. Better to be free, than to be in an artificial system where people make mistakes for you and against you.
Still feeling a little odd, but I'll hang in there. I'm going to try to finish a book, which is nice.
