My Spiritual Journey Research Paper

Summarizing my own spiritual journey in relation to Hagberg and Guelich (2005) text seems to be a struggle for me. The journey has also include my thoughts, on what it would be like to counsel someone else that is in a different stage of faith than, myself. My faith journey will be divided into four stages. Stage 1: A mother’s love. Born into a lower middle class family, with both my parents, growing up in a very conservative and traditional household, we were all Southern Baptist Church member. They were strict disciplinary and true believers . Being the youngest of six children who grew up in a small farming town where there are several, churches and three of them being Southern Baptist. My basis education about God was taught by my parents. Looking back over my life, there is a memory of me and my mom walking on the family farm which we did a lot of . She would tell me names of plants, the sky, animals, birds, water, and that all of this great earth was made by God. God did all these great things for us because he loves us. She loved to talk about the sky and the multiple of stars surrounding the moon and God made all of this in 6 day and rested on the 7th. We would look …show more content…
Getting to stay overnight in a hotel was great. My favorite role model was my youth minister. He spent a great deal of time with my group and challenged us to be creative, use scriptures in our daily lives. He gave me major support, techniques in self-esteem, and using the words of God. He guided us in principles, spiritual depth; help shape us, helping us to learn more about the scripture. In this stage, I was in the process of learning more about God. My belief system seemed to change as I grew in my faith and question myself, my parents and my church