Enlightened
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My name is Amanda Stone. I'm 23 years old. I try to live life to its fullest without a thought. Yet I can't help but wonder 'what's the propose of this life?'.
What I'm I here doing here?
Why I'm I here in the first place?
Is there really an afterlife?
What happens to our loved ones when they die?
Most importantly, what's going to happen to me when I die?
I ask myself these and others questions like them all the time. Yet I never get a satisfactory answer. I'm lost.
My parents are Christians, but I don't believe that Christianity is sufficient enough- at lest for me. It doesn't answer all my questions nor doesn't make total sense to my complicated mind. I've asked many priests and pastors why Jesus was sacrificed for our own sins, all I got was 'we only follow without questioning what we're told' -or even worse- I was kicked out of the church. Why are there no one answering me?!
I'm not ready to follow blindly something I don't understand.
I know where I live, where I'm at, and what I want... but I'm still lost. I don't feel full. This idea of not knowing why I'm here is killing me.
I desperately need help...
"God! Help me find your way!"
~~~*~~~
After a rainy day, the sun just has to come out by the will of its Creator!
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