Seeking...

Today I've been really drawn to reflect on the rosary...what do these prayers repeated actually do or achieve for us? Why the repetition? Why the beads? I've found that in order to answer questions concerning our faith, it is never just a quick answer that satisfies my spirit. As I start to answer one question, it leads me to many more. Since my conversion to the Catholic Faith I've found so much deep rooted history about our Christian faith...it's mind boggling really, some great history and some bad, but boggling still the same.

As a child I often wondered about the gap of space between the "end" of the Bible and life as we know it today. As I grew older I, like most young teens, stopped concerning myself with my faith and started to concern myself with "my life". The cool thing about God is that He is always there and when you get enough humility to listen to Him, good things happen. My good thing happened...I started to seek truth, truth on God's terms and not my own.

That's the problem with us, we want God to come to us and change for us and make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside 100% of the time. God doesn't change for us, we are to change for God and come to Him on His terms and that's what I did. I learned that my terms only led me to confusion and no confidence in what I was supposed to believe in. I guess a good comparison would be to go with the old saying that, an apple is still an apple no matter how you slice it...truth is truth. Paul says in his first letter to Timothy that the pillar and foundation of truth is the Church. (1 Timothy 3:15)

I found truth and I continue to pursue it in the deep rooted history that has been laid out before us. using both holy scripture and apostolic tradition, through which the Holy Spirit works through today.

This blog is me seeking truth and taking the truth that I find and writing it down...or typing it down. In my next post, I'm going to type out the answers to some questions I've had today and some interesting things I find along the way.