LL: It wasn't hard for me to radically shift my views like this. I'm not sure why. It sure upset my parents, and it upset me in a way too, because for quite a while afterwards I was quite atheistic in my thinking, and I found it an empty place to be. I've got some different ideas now, like I stated earlier.


Jeanie: I think sometimes when we're young and full of faith and look at things more emotionally without questioning we then come to a place we do question. Its normal. I think of things like that as being like a pendulum. For instance my daughter knows a girl who was quite (QUITE) wild and then had a religious experience. Now she is....well - quite zealous and not all that realistic in some ways. At some point I imagine she'll get so she doesn't swing quite so strongly either way and settle more in the middle : ) For me, my faith is most definitely spiritually fulfilling but also makes sense.. Doesn't make it easy, though, still.

Some of my family gave me a hard time when I became a Mormon... Its always the religious ones who do.... I guess it is partly why I've had the attitude I do. I've needed to overcome that living here in the Bible belt south! But so far people have been pretty good about it here. To my face at least : )