community/christianity/camino

[Andrea Innes-Michailov]

I long to believe in something and have a community of people to help make
life manageable
or maybe I just want to believe and have life be more manageable
church life CAN provide that and has for many many people
When my mother died I explored the Mormon religion briefly
Well, I think Christianity has been watered down quit a bit, some for good
some for bad
and in truth we have some pretty serious people in the world who would like
to see it perish (Sept 11)
Have you read Loving God  by Charles W. Colson?

THAT is a fabulous book about Christianity
I need to read it again
Perhaps it's message about making christianity an act, not just a belief is
more where we are all losing ground
a society like ours that promotes self centered gain can only get lonlier
and lonlier
maybe that is why the Pilgrims go back to Santiago again and again, for that
sense of community, that belonging feeling.
as I asked before, what would the belief system have to be in order for
someone to stop what they were doing to HELP someone else?  WHAT ABOUT THE
BELIEF SYSTEM THAT IT IS OK TO NEED HELP?

ANDREA