My religious beliefs are personal, and I don’t particularly want to change your mind if you hold different ones.

By Kate C.

Originally posted at Makin’ Babies. Shared by permission.

I hold the opinion that religious beliefs are intensely personal.  I resent it very much when a stranger knocks on my front door to ask about them.  Perhaps it comes of living in a region with rich religious diversity, or from being raised in a church that celebrates spiritual differences.  Whatever the cause, I am no proselytizer.  I believe my spiritual beliefs are personal, and I don’t particularly want to change your mind if you hold different ones.  I can respect good people of all kinds.  I can disdain jerks of all kinds, too.

I am not a deist.  I always hear atheists ask to explain “why not!?”  But I don’t even understand that question.  I’m not a deist because I don’t believe in one God or in many.

Yet, when writing yesterday about how I felt in the moment I made my choice, I very carefully picked the word, “grace.”  I felt full of grace.  For two days, I had felt nothing but anguish.  I had cried until I cried myself out, then cried some more.  But in that moment of turning towards an abortion, it felt as though my very soul was filled with light.

Read the rest of Kate’s article at Makin’ Babies.