My Relationship With God Reflection Paper

In the life of a religious person there are many ways to tackle, deal with and answer, questions of our faith. One major question within our religion is what is our relationship with God. This question has many ways to go about answering it. In my personal belief our relationship with god can be ever changing. I believe that as we grow in knowledge we seek more and more and always are asking questions trying to further our understanding of our faith and relationship with god. This question to be answered first we as humans have to answer so many other questions such as who god is, what he is truly capable of, why did he create us, how does he feel of what humanity is as a whole. The reason this is, is that there is so much we don’t understand …show more content…
What is my own relationship with god? Religiously I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Currently I adhere to these beliefs in my own way. When I was younger I believed every bit of what I was told as many Christian children. I absorbed every single piece of what I heard, and took it the way I was told to understand it. Being in catholic school my whole life this was drilled into me. IN high school by choice I entered religious retreat programs, where my faith changed. It started to feel more my own than what had been passed down to me. I felt I could interpret things the way I wished, and understand things my own way rather than exactly what had been taught to me. My relationship with god evolved in this time. It started to feel more personal and spiritual, than previously it had. However when I came to college busy life and change of life style made it hard to keep up with my faith how it did before. My relationship with god changed again as I did in college it lost its personal level as I explore new questions. Questioning my religion and my beliefs. I still adhere to these beliefs but I am also more open to different interpretations. Questioning my religion in ways so that some would look down upon questions I’m asking thinking it’s due to a lack of faith. When truly I am searching for a deeper understanding so when my relationship with god evolves again it can be deeper and …show more content…
As much knowledge we seek of him we can never a full and complete understanding of him. So as we gain more and more in our journey to understand him our relationship is bound to change. No matter how hard we try we will always come up with more and more questions in trying to understand him, which is amazing. Our knowledge grows constantly when we seek answers that deal with thing such as God where there is no one true definite