Prisoner of Hope Blog

This is my first blog in a long time for I have been on a discovery Journey ever since I came back from Israel several years ago? I had to grow from the milk of the word to more of the meat of the word of the Bible and I continue to grow daily.! I am not a scholar or a fabulous writer but I believe we all have questions and some of us just read and some of us have to put our journey down on Paper or blog. I am trying to place those hard questions on this Blog that we all ask ourselves but are afraid to ask someone else.  I was transformed by Grace over 2000 thousand years ago but only recently began to understand what that journey is!  You see my journey began when I realized I really did not know anything but a media outlook on Christianity. I knew you went to church and was raised believing the Church could save you in my own perspective. That if you went to Church and you went every Sunday and study the Bible you were a much better person than myself. That you had some secret to life I did not have? Oh I thought I knew who Jesus Christ was  he was a sweet baby in a Manger who grew up to die on the Cross for me! For some reason I never ask myself why did he do that! It was enough to just know that! I went to Church on Christmas and Easter and when I wanted to be a good girl for my Grandma and have everyone think I was such a good girl!  I knew I could never live up to what I thought real Christians were like? They were perfect people who lived in perfect houses who had a lot of money to give the church and never had worries like I did and they had nice homes with perfect families! Only my family had flaws and made mistakes and we could never be those perfect Christians. Then there were those weird Harry Krishna's, Jehovah Witnesses and Buddhist and the people who believed snakes and things were their Ancestors and Muslin's who I did not even know existed as a child for that fact I never really thought about Jewish people as a Child I did not even know they existed the only people I knew were different than me were  Black people and Indians. That was just because I knew because of their dress or the color of their skin. I kinda of believed different people like Japanese and Chinese were the same and lived kinda where Africa was it was far away from Texas the only real people in my life seemed to be American Indians and Black people. I was never taught they were bad unless they drank to much and then I knew by their families pain from the events that happened to them. As a matter of fact I was America naive personality. Believe me some days I wish I was still that young woman who believed life was just simple. God had a different plan for my life and yes now I know it was his plan not mine all along. I married a talented young man and we had two beautiful children and then to many struggles and no money and no real faith and exploration our marriage ended! I would tell you the story but it is not mine alone? I divorced at Twenty five with two children and began a Nursing career and met my Husband who had two boys now who we have been married for thirty five years we have lived all over the world ! God has shown me places I had only seen in Movies as a matter of fact most of my young life was lived by the Movies that is what I knew of the world the Hollywood version of morals and reality. I am writing all of this so you get a sense of who I was before I was transformed by Grace and the word of God! For in another word for you to know a Blogger and what they stand for you must know a sense of their reality.I developed the worldly knowledge by living places day by day I lived with Muslims and  Egyptians and living on Islands and seeing the Chinese and Japanese in their own country and when you come home you are no longer the same! I have seen lepers and hunger and mud huts and children bathing sewer like water! I have seen Europe in egocentric personality which did not include the rest of the world.  I have seen Temple worship and animal worship and Zen worship. I have studied something about all the cultures in my curiosity to know more. I must say I long for my naive nature to return in my older age! Why is the Blog called the prisoner of Hope because as I have looked at the Bible I suddenly realized Paul saying he was a Prisoner of Hope and then I heard Joyce Meyers teach on Hope and then I realized that greatest thing in the Bible besides to Love my neighbor was to believer there was hope for all mankind and it all has to do with a simple choice of Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour and the Word of God the Bible. Tomorrow the questions continue???????