Arie Belle Blog

I was sitting with my Grandfather Demetrios Kepas at the pharmacy as we waited a long while for their prescriptions to be filled which took about an hour. We sat there and watched as people came in and out of the store, at one point two young men came and sat near us and they started talking about the one guys broken arm. Eventually my Grandpa joined in on their conversation and started sharing his many years of knowledge with them. After finishing a couple different conversations he turns to me and the one guy who was left and said  If you took apart a clock, and set all of the pieces next to each other on the ground and waited, would they be able to put themselves back together without a master clock maker to put of all the pieces precisely where they needed to be in order to make the clock work. No, of course they wouldn't be able to put themselves back together, no even in a billion years. There had to be someone to put each part in its place in order for the clock to funct...

This past Sunday(yesterday) the over arching theme of our church meeting was God's love for us, and this video reinforces what was spoken of so tenderheartedly yesterday. But it applies to all stereotypes, its not just Gays and Lesbians that get mocked, and hated upon, its almost any group that another group deems "abnormal". But every single person on this planet is different, yet at the same time we are 100% equal in the eyes of God. No matter what someone does in this life, God will not stop loving them. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ's love for us is eternal, never failing and always available to us. It bothers me so much that christian people sometimes think down on Gays or Lesbians. Because they are just in the dark and hiding in their fear which causes hatred for other people. If the people who "hate" homosexuals were to step out of their own closet of darkness and misguidance they would be able to get to know the person as a child of God. No di...

I tend to avoid talking about my religion in public, at school, and with new people that I am meeting and getting to know. Maybe I feel like they will judge me when they hear that I'm Mormon, maybe they won't want to be my friend, but if someone were to judge me and not be my friend based on my faith then they aren't the type of person I need in my life. Sharing my views on my blog is a way for me to share my faith and get it out there also it helps me to be less afraid of what people think of me, but instead of just throwing it out there that I am Mormon, I want to tell you about my faith, my beliefs and what it all means to me personally. I'm not writing this to convince any one there is a God, faith is a choice, joining a church is a choice, not believing in any God or higher power is a choice. We are all free to choose whatever path we want to go down, be it wrong or right, good or evil. Anyways, I've been thinking about my beliefs today, and for fellow LD...