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Having survived the 44th year after birth I must say that for me...last year was no different from the previous 43

They all suck if you ask me...and it seems like the older I get, the more they suck. But that might just be me, sorry if any other person has had a pleasant road to being old.

But it does help having a support system, I'm not sure how much though will letcha know when I get one!!

I use to put a lot into my faith but I have a little story about "my faith"...its not about being tested, its not about haivng lost it, its about waking up and finding that faith is nothing more then the rest of the world - POLITICS!!

All my life I grew up going to church, at first with the elderly neighbors and then when I was about 7 or 8 my parents started going and we were very active in the church after that. All my travels and growing up and moving on I stayed in church, followed my faith, and TRIED to do what I had been taught was "biblically correct". I don't have a problem being kind, helping others, and stuff like that. To me, that just displays the type of person you are and has nothing really to do with faith. Our pastor was ALWAYS there for my family from the time my fahter had his first bout with cancer to the death of our daughter and beyond. Then one day my dad was hit with cancer for a second time, this truly was a test of faith for me. A few years before his diagnosis he helped pioneer a new church with our paster of many years. This pastor has saved more people then I've met in my lifetime, to me he is everything religion is suppose to be. He's human, he cries, he gets angry, all the things normal people do the difference was he dealt with things the way the bible said to deal with things. A great example, a great man. Then, after he pioneered his last church (altogether he's probably pioneered at least a dozen different churches in his day) his congregation decided that he was too old to preach (he was in his late 80's/90's) so they got together and rather then discuss the situation man to man, brother to brother, christian to christian, they just voted behind his back and let him know with a housecall that he was no longer wanted there. This crushed the best example of a man I've ever known (outside of my father). Then they brought in this new "pastor" (and I use that term extremely loosely, I call him a heretic) who preached that he was NOT interested in getting to the youth in todays world, he was not interested in a daycare if people can't watch their own children and listen to the message then they don't belong at church...and the list goes on and on. Included in this list was his comment that pastors/preachers are not bungee cords and they should not be expected to go to the congregation when there is a problem, instead the congregation should come to him. Meaning those that are sick and unable to attend church!!!! So I told him of Jesus's travels, how he took the message from place to place just like a freakin bungee!!!! And he NEVER came to see my dad the entire 11 months that my father was sick and unable to get out.

Then he was outsted from the church and they brought in this new pastor. He's better then the previous one but still not what I was accustomed to. The church is now all about politics, who has the most $$$$ to give, and not at all about "the bible, the whole bible and nothing but the bible" which was our motto for more years then I can remember. No one was welcome into the church unless you knew someone from there already. It was a huge blow to me, and I still haven't recovered. And I haven't been to church since.

I know people don't like us to mention religion on here and I do apologize, just wanted to make reference to what Meg said...I do remember a church as close as what she describes, but now its not like that at all unfortunately and I haven't found another one that I like.

Hope everyone has a great day...weekend...whatever it may be right now for them.