Time to Get Religious Again

Since it's been over a month since I posted anything on this blog I shall try again now.

I am friends with people of very diverse views about religion. Some are very strong, conservative Christians. Others consider themselves liberal Christians. Many are moderates like me. Others do not consider themselves religious at all. I admit I don't have many close relationships with people who are of different religions. How can all of these viewpoints be correct? And some of them are so certain they are right. I know God is bigger than all of that and all of us, but it can really bother me that we, God's creation, can't just get along. We have a need to point blame at others as "the bad guys" - those conservatives, those liberals. This has to do with religion and politics too, I suppose. I think the bottom line is to love and serve each other no matter what, if we believe in God. And I have one friend who claims not to believe in God at all. I often find myself feeling caught in the middle. Sometimes I have to come out and say I am not a biblical literalist and I have liberal-ish social values to my conservative friends. And sometimes I have to come out and say I'm a Christian to my liberal friends, even though they might not want to talk about religion or though they may find Christians to be close-minded. In the process of being true to myself, I find myself liberal, moderate, and conservative all at once - depending on to whom or what I am comparing myself. This can make me quite dizzy and uncomfortable. But I am on a quest to be true to myself, down to the core of how God created me and of who God desires for me to be. So I'll stop and rest when I get too dizzy, I guess. I trust that I will figure out what matters to the best of my ability, and what I never come to understand is not necessary on my life's journey.