[Pharmaciest]

hi kelly and all.
you've received some truly amazing and insightful responses to your post. what i find so incredibly inspiring is that no one told you that you should be a christian, and no one told you that you should only follow the ra teachings. at the same time, no one told you not to follow them either!

instead of that kind of limited thinking, they all had inspiring and uplifting words of wisdom to encourage you to find your own path! wow!

i was raised as a radical christian in a cult-type environment, and as soon as i turned 18 i high-tailed it outta there. but now as i get a bit older and [hopefully] wiser, i can look back and see it from a different viewpoint, and i was surprised to discover a few years ago, that i could have stayed there and chose that path without compromising my principles!

you see at that time i was looking for everything that was wrong with it, and in doing so i failed to see all that was right with it. i truly believe now that i could be in any religion and find a way to make that my path. (well maybe not radical islam!)

don't get me wrong, i love the path i am on, since i created it without following anyone else's idea of right and wrong. no regrets here! but then again maybe i'll look back in another 20 yrs and think, "how could i have been so obtuse?"