Relationship With God?

[notbilln]

My relationship with God? Well, its a combination of my personal reationship with him, and my realtionship with him through my faith community. Talking to other people ( or, lets say posting on Phatmass forums) helps it grow. Going to mass with helps it grow., because I get to celebrate and worship with others. As I am growing on the vine, I can learn more about the vine my talking to the other grapes.

My personal relationship really developed through many different avenues. Bible study, reading about the lives and writtings of the saints, Euchristic adoration, the rosary, poems and songs, and many other things that are hard to remeber. Now what does God do for me? Well, there have been a number of times that I believe I have felt his spirit and inDouche I have occasionally been convicted by the spirit. Now, I know God has a sence of hummor, because sometimes the way he answers my praryes are hilarious. Thats one of the reasons my friends think I'm so strange, because I'll start laughing at the strangest times for no apparent reason. I can't hwoever honestly say that I've litteraly heard his voice in my ears, I have felt him tugging at my concsious to speak up, or do something. Thats sort of different.

I have this vivid memory of a conversation I had with my Mom when I was 4 years old. My sister had just done something stupid, bordering on evil. I, being the cute kid that i was, noticed my mom was feeling sad and ran up to her and gave her a big hug and told her that I loved her. She was taken instanly cheered up and turned to me and said " Thank you for choosing to be so good". And I stopped and thought about it. I couldn't remeber making the big decision to be a good boy. In my mind I imagined standing before God and the Devil and being asked by each who I would love and follow. So I told her that I didn't remember deciding to be good. She explained that it is in every moment, every action ,every thought that we are faced with the choice of being good. The point of including this sappy sappy story , is that nothing is good that does not come from the Lord. So in every Good Decision I make, Every time I resist temptation, God is with me. That in a nutshell is my realtionship with God.