Religion and I

Who am I to say that this religion doesn't exist when so many people believe in it and confide in it. When so many people find solace in believing in God and in this community, who am I to say that it doesn't exist and that it should be vanquished from the face of our earth. The kind of peace and joy that sprouts from these religions is absolutely irreplaceable. Each and every moment here is another moment from the reality back home and we are allowed the opportunity to give it all up to a higher being and pretend our life isn't so complicated for a moment. We can be whoever we want to be up here. We can be introverted or extroverted or super peaceful or absolutely obnoxious. We are given the chance for a new beginning for a week and to search for a God that is so hard to meet back home with the hustle and bustle of the city and the social media craze that distract us from the true love we want to find in a community and a small tight knit family. Here at camp I am almost forced to meet new people and to come out a shell that I have become so accustomed to hiding beneath. Every day for me back home I am the same person who is bound by the reputation of being a Key Club and TEDx fanatic. But here I am able to be someone else who is in love with worship and being crazy & undignified for the sake of religion and endless praise for a God almighty. I've had many many many doubts about this religion and any religion actually but when I come to Lazy W Ranch I have a brief moment when I wonder why I had these foolish doubts in the first place. It's not a long pause but it is a pause that allows me to open myself up to a different universe entirely - one that I have reluctantly accepted as a truth back home but a little more openly here.

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