Church

When i was young and started going to church around 1957. I would take my bike and there was a path that you could take like a short cut . There was a place on that trail where people in the area said Tom Dooley was hanged . ( There is a song called "The Legend Of Tom Dooley") . Anyhow i would make it to the Baptist Church and i enjoyed going to church . I was skinny and everyone treated me well . After church was over i would ride my bike back home taking the paved road . Soon after in 1960 we moved and that ended going to that church . By then i was getting chunky and that is where my problem of shyness took over . I soon started going to a Methodist Church .
I was so scared of talking to people . I would go to my Sunday school class and they would go down the line and each would read a verse in the Bible . When it was my turn i would try and read my verse . I would stutter and everyone would look my way making me feel like a tiny ant in a huge room about to be stepped on . People would snicker at me . That it self caused me not to go to church much . It affected me later in life about being around people . My shyness has for the most part kept me from attending church like i wanted too . Mom loved going to church and after dad died i would take her out to the little church and go back later to pick her up . One day when i took her out there . Some one had the speaker system turned on . I sit there and listened to the service . by the end of the service i had so many tears flowing . I wanted to be in there but my shyness took over and prevented me from attending .
After my mom died i tried going back to that church and was doing well . I couldn't stand up when the other's did and that played a part later in not going back . I would sing with the rest and maybe some could here me singing and they would turn around and see who was singing . I got to where i would just sing in silence and soon just give up .
I can not say i am a saved person in most people's view of me because i don't attend Church . I was baptized many years ago and do believe i did it for the right reason . My love of God has grown over the years and i do pray . God has provided all the thing's i really need in life and if i didn't get the other thing's then i didn't need them any how . Since i joined eon's my love of God has grown more each day . The friend's i have made and the other member have taken me out of my shell and i feel at ease talking too and all the wonderful kind word's i get each day keeps me going . I do pray too God that i may some day make it to Heaven where i shall only be judged by God himself .

I know there may be some that do not believe in God and how the earth was created .

I wrote this about a year ago and my Love of God has strengthen more each day . I am still shy in a lot of ways but now a year later i have opened up a lot .

Written By Wayne