My Personal Faith Journey What role does my faith play in my life? This is one of my day to day questions. Since I can remember, my religion and my life come hand in hand. I grew up in a town with a very strong Catholic faith that was passed on to me and I have kept it since. I started learning about my faith since I was a child and now that I am a young adult, I try day by day to understand it better and to follow the teachings of it. My faith is something I carry with me everywhere I go and it is not only a part of my life but a part of me. Faith has been a part of me since the day I was born. I was born on December 12, which is the day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, one of the biggest feast in Mexico, where I grew up. Naturally, Guadalupe
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Sometimes I think that he only gives us what is good for us and if we ask him for something that is not, then he will not give it to us. However, I sometimes do not understand how having a mom fully there will be bad for us. How having her cook and clean and being present in important moments in our lives is not for our own good. I don’t get how me having all this extra responsibilities and having to be like a mom for my two younger sisters and even a mom for my own mom is for my own good. I think I am on the 3rd stage of Fowler’s stages of faith. I identify with this stage because I have grown up and now is time to face a different reality and to adapt to this world on which not everyone is Catholic and not everyone shares the same beliefs that I do. I am trying to adapt my faith to this world and finding a middle point between both and sometimes there isn’t one. My faith is being challenged more often now. There are a lot of questions I have that I do not know the answers to and that is what keeps me at this stage. My faith has always been a part of my life. Faith is a part of me and is what makes me, me. However, there are times in which I don’t completely agree with God’s will, or I do
Sometimes I think that he only gives us what is good for us and if we ask him for something that is not, then he will not give it to us. However, I sometimes do not understand how having a mom fully there will be bad for us. How having her cook and clean and being present in important moments in our lives is not for our own good. I don’t get how me having all this extra responsibilities and having to be like a mom for my two younger sisters and even a mom for my own mom is for my own good. I think I am on the 3rd stage of Fowler’s stages of faith. I identify with this stage because I have grown up and now is time to face a different reality and to adapt to this world on which not everyone is Catholic and not everyone shares the same beliefs that I do. I am trying to adapt my faith to this world and finding a middle point between both and sometimes there isn’t one. My faith is being challenged more often now. There are a lot of questions I have that I do not know the answers to and that is what keeps me at this stage. My faith has always been a part of my life. Faith is a part of me and is what makes me, me. However, there are times in which I don’t completely agree with God’s will, or I do