Interesting! I didn't grow up as a Christian, but I recall when my mother used to take my brother and I to a church for Sunday school. Back then, when I was a kid, I had Attention Deficit Disorder (it was back in the mid-1960s when it wasn't called that). So I just went and got nothing out of it. When the class ended, we got picked up. My parents just didn't want anything to do with church.

When I turned 23 years old, I became a Christian and was going to church practically every Sunday. The only times I didn't go was when I was working at my parents' resort, which was opened on Sundays and I had to work. But recently I have stopped going to church altogether.

I still have a relationship with God, but I have stopped going to church because I got sick of feeling like an outsider when I went. I have been a life-long singleton, and after being 30 years old, going to church was not that great anymore. For some strange reason, churches do not seem to encourage and welcome single people. There are all kinds of blogs about that.

For quite a few years, I was feeling depressed every Sunday morning. I guess it was because of having to go to church and getting ostracized. I was telling people that it seemed like going to church was like paying a penalty and being punished for the sins I had committed throughout the week.

I feel bad for not going to church, but now I feel a little bit better at doing what I want to do on Sundays. I feel like I have an extension on my weekends. I feel alone still, and that seems to happen all of the time.