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In the end i completely lost who i was, i was a good Christian one day, a person interested in Islam the next, then i would be hanging out with my atheist friends drinking and doing things that i knew i shouldn't be and i didn't want to do anymore but i wanted to please everyone so i changed myself to accomodate them. It was awful, i have a poor sense of identity as it is but this literally tore me into different pieces. I always want to learn but what i needed to learn first was to stop and take my time. I know now i'm not going to know everything right now, by Gods guidence i am on the right path but with the more i learn i pray i will be brought ever closer to God.

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I totally and completely understand that. So thank you (((((((Abby)))))))))) ... I think I'm taking a break from trying to learn everything about different religions at the moment, and just try to be a better and happier person overall.

"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." Mark 12:30-31 (NIV)

That's what I'm trying to live by. Still need a lot of work though.

... oh, and best news ever! My chaplain (ordained minister) says he's willing to participate in my baptism (doing it himself!) if I can find a church I want to join. this makes me happy, because it's because of him that I've really gotten to understand God.