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Date: 26 February 2006 11:44:09
I have just been out with the best bunch of guys. Total strangers most of them, and we spent ages chatting over dinner about bikes, and scenery and jobs and moves and God and family and girlfriends or the lack there of and commitment. Commitment was a bit of a theme actually. I am a commited person. Some people seem to find it hard. I like commitment. It simplifies life. Decisions are based on that commitment.
Once I am in, I am in. That is the way I intended it to be with my marriage, and with my joining the Orthodox church. We are in a bit of a courtship time, finding the differences and the similarities between Orthodoxy and our previous brand of Christianity. Once we decide to join, I want it to be for life. It is a commitment to Gods people, Gods family, the church, which I do not want to ever walk away on.
My father-in-law came to the Orthodox church one morning. He is not a Christian. This weekend we were talking a bit about the church service and the meanings of everything, (every movement seems to have a meaning) we talked about church history, how the teachings in the church are handed down from the apostles, how Orthodox churches all over the world are the same, and have been for 2000 years. His final comment was, "This is the true faith." I was blown away. That is quite an insight.
P.s. Can anyone tell me how to get my apostrophe back.