While living a life a pleasure as a bishop, Augustine cared for nothing but …show more content…
Augustine’s name was very familiar. My faith is very important to me because it has gotten me through the toughest of times where I could have fully given up on everything. I believe my faith is a beautiful faith that has many gray areas but knows what it expects out of us humans. My mom has always told me that our faith is the strongest of all because it is a blind faith; it makes us stronger because it is all about how well we trust God and in ourselves. Augustine faced challenges being a Christian because he was designed for a certain life and never really understood who he was as a person – that is why as a bishop he started to question himself in the faith. You need to know yourself to understand God and your religion. It was not really until I went on Kairos Retreats in high school that I finally found my self-worth, love, and peace, but before that I only knew and followed what I was told to do as a Catholic. Now, I am more open minded and not as strict as I was before, but my heart is closer to God than it ever was