{"id":145,"date":"2013-01-17T00:34:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T05:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apertureoflight\/?p=145"},"modified":"2013-01-17T00:34:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T05:34:15","slug":"i-dont-want-religion-i-want-you-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2013\/01\/i-dont-want-religion-i-want-you-god.html","title":{"rendered":"I don’t want religion, I want you, God."},"content":{"rendered":"

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God,<\/p>\n

How can I be more like you?\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to try so hard to be Christian.\u00a0 I just want you to transform me.\u00a0 I want to give without expecting anything in return.\u00a0 I want to forgive without a second thought.\u00a0 I want to let you lead me because you know me better than I know myself.\u00a0 I want to be me and nobody else.\u00a0 I want to love people the right way.\u00a0 I want to stop talking so much about the way things should be and just let them be that way.\u00a0 I want to give it all up to you.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want religion, I want a life like Christ.\u00a0 I want to see myself through your eyes and not the eyes of anyone else or even my own because those eyes can lie and they can deceive.\u00a0 I want to just let you love me and heal me.\u00a0 I want the truth, which is only found in you.\u00a0 I want to show the world who you are and what you stand for because you are love and we are surrounded by false idols and lies everyday when we know in our hearts what is right, we just don\u2019t have the eyes to see it.\u00a0 But every now and then we see a glimmer of what is true and we know it.\u00a0 Just a little piece of that hope shining through the darkness.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I hunger for.\u00a0 More of that; more of you.\u00a0 Open my eyes everyday because I so easily fall asleep or get distracted.\u00a0 Thank you for the ones who hunger for this to.\u00a0 To know something real and true.\u00a0 To be fulfilled in the only way we can truly be.\u00a0 It\u2019s so simple so why so hard?\u00a0 Surrender everyday and we\u2019ll find life.\u00a0 For some it\u2019s harder than others.\u00a0 We have grown up different ways with different experiences but we all want the same thing, we just don\u2019t know how to let go and receive it.\u00a0 It seems so easy so why so hard?\u00a0 It\u2019s a transformation, but one that leads to absolute freedom.\u00a0 That is what I want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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