religion

I used to believe…

Me and my sister were small back then and were troublesome. My grandma threatened us that if we kept acting like this, a demon from hell will rise up from the ground and snatch us to take us to hell where the "bad behavior" originated. In order to send back the demon, we had to ask for forgiveness. It really worked for me, but I was scared for the longest time everytime I did something wrong........

I used to believe…

Up until I started teaching my own kids Christmas Carols, I realised there wasn't a place called Oreentar, (Where I thought the 3 wise men came from!) Never really questioned it?
'We three Kings from Oreentar, bearing gifts, . . . ' sounded fine to me.

I used to believe…

when i was small, i had the belief that in the song "Ding Dong merrily on high" when they came to the chorus and the part that was "Ding Dong merrily on high" it was actually "Ding Dong chookie chookie pie"
i had no idea why a christmas choir was singing about chicken pie.

i used to believe that Purgatory was a huge spiral staircase between heaven and hell, and you had to kneel and say a prayer on each and every step until you finally reached heaven...I remember wondering if they provided knee pads.

I used to believe…

When I was very little, I asked my mom "Mom? Where do angels go when theres no clouds for them to sit on?" and she looked down at me and said "Why, they sit on your shoulders of course!" I believed her for the longest time...and still do.

I used to believe…

when i was little i had all these beliefs about god such as: when it was raining, god was crying and so forth. The best one i came up with when i was little was that when it was foggy outside god was smoking. It made perfect sense to me at the time because both of my parents smoke

I used to believe…

Heaven was up and Hell was down- that's what they told me. So I often would get down on the floor, put my face into the carpet, and yell at the floor in my bedroom, "I hate you!" because I thought I'd show off to God how much I hated the Devil. I'm sure my Mom was traumatized that her six year old was so hateful!

I used to believe…

Growing up in church, every Sunday we sang the doxology, so I would dutifully stand and sing "Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him all creatures Hear Me Lord". Of course, it's supposed to end with "here below".

Why couldn't someone have please clued me in during 18 years of unknown embarassment??

I used to believe…

When I was a wee little girl, I believed that heaven was in the clouds (probably from TV). I also believed that God looked like the Lucky Charms man (again TV -there must have been some commercial where he was standing on a cloud or something).

Anyway, as I reached grade school age, I would always get perplexed by the Scripture about having a "faith like a child". I thought, 'What's so great about a faith like a child's? Just a couple of years ago I thought God looked like the Lucky Charms man, and you people are looking to US for solid faith??!!'

(It wasn't until last year that I figured it out... it's not about "head knowledge"; it's about a heart that trusts God's goodness)

i used to think heaven was a gas station.

I used to think that the paparazzi and the pope were the same thing. Whenever I heard that some actor/actress had the paparazzi hiding in their bushes, I used to think it was an old Catholic priest hiding and taking pictures! This confused me because he's so holy and I thought it wasn't very nice for such a holy man to be invading peoples privacy like that!

I used to believe…

when I was about 4 i was out walking with my mother and kept staring at the clouds in the sky.

She asked me what I was looking at, to which i replied "god's up there somewhere picking the flesh off the dead bodies..."

I was such a sweet child..

I used to believe…

When I was small, at the end of Catholic Mass, the priest says "Go in Peace to love and serve the Lord". The response is "Thanks be to God", but boredom had overtaken me by then , so I always said "Thank God for that". Fortunately I don't now, I know better.

I was brought up as a Roman Catholic & knew I had to make my first confession one day, but I was terrified to do so, as I thought that I had to remember every single sin I had ever committed! I thought that if I forgot any, God would be really angry with me & I used to think "How will I ever remember them all?" I think I was about 7years old?

I used to believe…

My cousins are 3 and 4, at they came to visit me and we went to church, there favorite song is called "We lift our hands in the santuaray" well our Praise team sang that song the sunday they came to visit, and I heard my cousins sing it > "We lift our hands in the araie garie,......

I used to believe…

There's an old church song that goes " Hold to his hand, Gods unchanging Hand.."

My cousin Calvin would sing it....

"Hold to his pants, Gods unchanging Pants..."