I was baptized a Catholic, and went to a Catholic school until sixth grade. My cousins were Catholic and Adventist. So I had been exposed to “God” all my life. I went to mass, did confession, and completed my sacraments, never once doubting the existence of God. I never really had a personal relationship with Him, just somehow knew he was there because I was told that all my life. During my teenage life, I started “waking up” you could call it, to reality, to what a cruel and menace filled world this earth is. The situations and hardships I experienced made me doubt the existence of God, so I started thinking about all the possibilities. I mean it sure was nice to think that something/one was watching over you and loving you unconditionally, but circumstances were telling me otherwise. I thought that it was just too extreme, too much to accept all the things that Christianity claimed. I didn’t think we had a purpose, we were all just evolved probably, and the Discovery Channel seemed like they knew what they were talking about. They were realistic. But the further and further I tried to sink into the scientific explanation the more I realized, this sucks. So I went back to Christianity. And I started to notice things that I hadn’t noticed before, probably because I wasn’t trying. When I would lose something I would pray, then literally in a matter of seconds and I would spot it. At first I just thought that it was just a coincidence, but to this day the same things happen. There are way too many miracles like the miracle of birth, our bodies, the solar system, the world, to say that everything just formed out of chance. If it was formed out of chance why is the circle of life and the ecosystem so perfect, and why do they work together so perfectly? Wouldn’t there still be imperfections and mutant looking things walking around? And another thing the Bible is not a folk tale, its history. Studying in religion class about wisdom literature and secular thinking and arguments has just proven to us more that the Bible is historical. It is filled with eyewitness accounts, reports. It’s all true.. What they say, about God. He is out there. You just have to look, sometimes earthly things blind you.