finding peace in repentance
The word, "repentance" used to make my skin crawl. I remember telling my youth pastor in Jr. High that I didn't have anything to repent of and he acted as though I was an even worse person for thinking I had done nothing wrong. But I was a good kid. I never did anything that I was told was wrong. Ever. But this belief lead me to years of feeling guilty for things the Bible does not declare sin. In my previous post ( breaking the shell one piece at a time ) I mentioned that I read the Torah in eight, life changing days. This was back in 2013. The year I toured across country and released my self-titled debut album. The year I almost became an atheist. The year I made peace with repentance. I dug into the Torah to answer this one question, "what are sins?" I ended up with a lot more than I bargained for. Not to say that I have all the answers, I only have the answers I, personally, needed in order to heal. That being said, I found a lot