Everyone talk, everyone listen.

Having a conversation about religion, or lack of religion, is most likely to do one of two things:

It will either open your eyes to things that you might not have seen for yourself which will lead you to the one and only truth (because there can't be a God and at the same time for there to not be a God. Only one of those statements is true).

And/Or:

It will strengthen your beliefs (pro God or no God) in what you already think/know about there being a God or not.

Win/Win situation.

I try to hear all sides of the story and then listen to what my heart says is true. Keep asking questions with an open mind and searching for YOUR truth.

Just don't push your opinions/beliefs onto others and you might gain more friends that way.

*btw, it's your decision to believe/not believe any of what I just said*

Thank you all so very much
For all your beautiful words
I am truly touched

Nov. 16, 1950 - Feb. 4, 2011

Jesus called you home that day
Without a chance to say goodbye
God said you had to go away
And those left behind would cry

But you are not in pain anymore
To see you again, we must wait
All those who knew you before
Will meet you again at Heaven's gate

The sorrow we now feel in our hearts
Will someday be replaced by smiles
Someday we will no longer be apart
Love will close those empty miles

Though it may seem that you are gone
We were never this close in life
You live in the hearts of your children
You live on in the soul of your wife

You were too young to die
Too innocent to feel that pain
Only heaven benefits
Because you it has now gained

The pain we feel will hurt a little less
With each passing day
And your strength and love we won't forget
You have changed us in every way

Your love is still alive in us
Because over the years it grew
Our grief is filled with happiness
Because of our memories of you

We wish for you eternal peace
Your new beginning has begun
Someday this sorrow will cease
Who knows what dreams may come

Thank you. I have many, many others that I will post sometime.

Drowning, slipping into the blood of my wounds
My tears being used as the glue to try to heal the break in my heart
Each breath cuts the pain deeper into my soul
Fire could not kill me, for I am already dead
Love's lost, never to be found by my outstretched hand
Misery is trying to convince me to take that last step into oblivion
Why not?
Would I jump if it meant it would relieve this burning agony?
Sanity is slowly slipping from my confused mind
Bringing me closer to my destination of hopelessness
*One blissful moment you held me in your heart and soul*
*Then You Let Me Go*
What do I have to hold on to now but the pain and emptiness?
Your lies are not worth the soul that believed in you
But I lap them up like a cold, hungry kitten left alone in the dark
Drinking in the illusion painted by a skillful artist
The illusion of happiness and love
The two things my soul longed for, craved for eternity
Stupid me for trusting without knowledge of your past sins
Never again
I think I will, I think I can walk into oblivion

Yet another tear falls from her empty blue eyes
No one cares that she sits alone here and cries
The darkness of pain lives deep within her soul
Inflicting pain on her heart is it's only goal
Sadness is just the very beginning of the fall
From high atop the cracked, dirty, and broken wall
That never truly keeps the hurt of love lost away
But lets the darkness in a little more every day
Holding on to the memories of love hurts so much
She knows within her heart her soul has lost touch
With the reality that brings to her the happiness
That her saddened mind will now always miss
So comes the death that turned her poor heart black
Love was all she wanted but it's what she will always lack.