I've Changed July 9, 1999

    
    Why are people (Christians) afraid to speak up against the Catholic religion?  I ask this for many reasons (two off-hand) my mother-in-law and Winnie Saia's aunt. I met Winnie's aunt at the last Bible study in June, (this was when I used to go to Garden City Chapel). Roberta, our Bible teacher, took me aside after the Bible study to tell me that Winnie's aunt was a Catholic.  Why was she there then if nobody was going to tell her that the Catholic religion was wrong?  And now that I know Winnie's aunt is Catholic, I still will not back down.  The Catholic religion will send you to hell. I will not back down to anyone, even my mother-in-law, she is the second reason. My sister-in-law would not speak against the Catholic church to her mother, for fear I think, but of what? I don't know.  Hell is for eternity,  just like heaven is for eternity, they both exist.  I wouldn't want to go there (hell) and as a servant of Jesus Christ, my job is to tell others about Him.  If there is any church or religion (The Catholic Church is such a religion, I know because I was originally raised Catholic) that does not teach or explain Jesus' teachings, from  the Old and New Testaments, His birth, and resurrection, and why He came to this earth, to die for us sinners, so that we may be saved from our sins, I Corinthians 15:1-4, then  somebody has to tell them. Then it's up to them to believe.  I will leave any church that does not preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.   

       Now my mother-in-law, Lucia, didn't like the idea that her son and I did not practice Catholicism, and for eighteen years we tried to explain why we didn’t. When I met Jim he was a practicing Catholic, and I was a backsliding Christian who was angry at God, and tried my best to keep Him out of my life. I knew you could not drink, party, live in the world Monday through Saturday and go to church on Sunday. Then I turned forty-years-old, 2 1\2 years ago, and I changed. I truly changed. It was like He knocked again and I opened the door. You know, I'm a sinner. I asked Jesus Christ to forgive me of my sins, to forgive me a sinner. He did forgive all, many years ago. Then He patiently waited for me to come back, and stop running, like Jonah. God had a lot of work to do in these last 2 1\2 years, and still has a whole lot more work to do in my life and Jim's life. But last Monday the fifth, Jim and I went over to his mother's house, and from 9 to 11 p.m. ( we ate the first 3 hours) we talked to Lucia.  It was God who talked to Jim's mom.  We sat at the kitchen table with my Bible and her Italian translation Bible; no rosary, or prayer books. Near the end of the evening, I asked her how do you think that I could tell you of these things?  (I was quoting the scriptures, and turning right to the page in the Bible every time she would bring up a new subject.) Then I would tell her to turn to the same Scripture in her Italian Bible, so that she could understand it in her language.  Then what I told her was, "I’ve changed.  I don't drink anymore, or do any of the other things I used to do".  She said, "yes, I know you've changed!"  God was showing her during those 2 years without me knowing it, Himself.  That's when she started to believe the Bible and not the Catholic Church.  I thank God for those two words, "I've changed". I also thank Him for His patience.  Now Jesus Christ is always on my mind; day and night He is in my dreams.  I now understand the first commandment, "Thou shalt love your God with all your heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength...Mark 12:30.  That is thinking of God 24/7.  He is to be first in our life. 
May 6, 2020

  Lucia would not become a believer till years later, but she was getting it, she would soon understand.  I went to see her in the hospital right before she passed away, she looked up at me, she didn't speak but the smile said it all when I whispered in her ear, "I'll see you in heaven".  Oh, the memory is still with me today.     

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