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Hearts and Spades

I entered into the church with an open and loving heart, having had a personal experience with Jesus. I invited Him into my life, accepting Him as my savior and Lord. I was baptized in the river that ran by our house and felt just wonderful. I had finally found what my soul had been searching for all of these years. My salvation. When I had been told of Christ and all that He had done for us, and how He had died for us on the cross. I knew that I would live the rest of my life for Him. I knew that although I had just met Him, my love for Him would overpower all else, and I would share this love with all others that I would meet. I could hardly wait to share this wonderful news with all that I knew.

I entered the church at full steam along with my husband and young daughters. I never looked back. We got heavily involved with our young church in a very short time, doing all that we could to help with our spare time. I volunteered my time with the nursery, I was in charge of all social gatherings, I did cake decorating, I taught Sunday school, we taught the youth group on the week-ends. My husband became an assistant pastor in no time at all, and was volunteering his time most days after work and the week-ends to the church. We were so busy with the church, and we loved every minute of doing Gods work. We even had a coffee shop that we opened on Saturday nights and had live music. We would open the doors and let the music spill out onto the busy city streets so that people passing by would stop to see what was happening. They could come in for a free cup of coffee and find a new found friend to chat with. The conversation would not always have to be about God right away, they were always made welcome. Nothing was shoved down their throats.

I believe that one of the mistakes that we made was that we became too involved in the workings of the church. We should have kept our faith strong and alive with what we had and what we were doing. Not allowing the politics of the church come between our relationship with us and God. We felt it pulling us apart and knew that there was nothing that we could do. We tried to leave, but that did not work, we were in too deep. We couldn't just stop attending that was seen as backsliding in the eyes of the church. We had to be a good example.

Some of the problems that we encountered we felt that the church would not deal with properly. They did not listen to reason either. One day we realized that one of the women

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