Within the last 5 years I’ve definitely nearly lost my faith. I hung on by a thread, but I truly didn’t know why I was.
Finding out I was pregnant with my first child a year ago helped me clarify that God/Jesus was the only safe person for me growing up and that I somehow managed to have a secure attachment to Him when I had no other ones to model after. It was only in my 20s that the bullshit theology I was surrounded with started to infect my childlike relationship. I knew that I wanted my child to know that kind of safety too.
And so I’ve been on a very slow journey back into feeling more sure of my faith, even though my theology and spiritual practices look very different than before.
Thank you for this article Charlotte. I feel like I’ve gotten to know you more. I read the Huff Post piece about your eyesight too. Wow!
I only discovered you recently because of your Elisabeth Eliot article which I thought was excellent.
Within the last 5 years I’ve definitely nearly lost my faith. I hung on by a thread, but I truly didn’t know why I was.
Finding out I was pregnant with my first child a year ago helped me clarify that God/Jesus was the only safe person for me growing up and that I somehow managed to have a secure attachment to Him when I had no other ones to model after. It was only in my 20s that the bullshit theology I was surrounded with started to infect my childlike relationship. I knew that I wanted my child to know that kind of safety too.
And so I’ve been on a very slow journey back into feeling more sure of my faith, even though my theology and spiritual practices look very different than before.