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Cheryl B.

Wow! I think there's another aspect to drifting that wasn't mentioned. People tend to hop from church to church, denomination to denomination based on emotional response. I was raised in the American Baptist Church and became an Episcopalian my senior year of college. I think I had a sense of God calling me, and I did have a fairly good religious background. I also had a goal. I wanted an intimate relationship with God. What I lacked was the knowledge to ask the right questions. I thought that I would know that I'd found what I was looking for when I would experience such an emotional jolt that the source of that jolt could only be God. I think I was a drifter, but a more focused drifter. I thought I was responding to God's call, but I wasn't at peace with MY decision to remain with the Episcopal Church. I stayed with that dis-ease for 25 years, until cir*****stances brought me to the Catholic Church. Here's the acid test, I think. When I went from the Baptist Church to the Episcopal Church I really didn't experience much of a conversion. There definitely was a change of cult, but cult is easy. Becoming Catholic after 25 years as an Episcopalian would appear to be an easier transition given the similarities in cult, but that actually has been the greater culture shock. Going from Baptist to Episcopalian I didn't have to change. From Episcopalian to Catholic I did and still do and always will. That's why I think I'm at the beginning of this adventure God has called me to, and part of the reason I find being Catholic so exciting. Thanks for your commentary, Father.

3/10/2010 2:48:58 PM

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