W.W.J.D?

This week started off great, I found out that my little cousins, Nicholas and Ariana, would be spending a lot of time with us since my mom and I will be watching them often this summer. If you ever see me with my family it's obvious that all my little cousins mean the whole world to me.

Nick and Ariana

It's really true that kids say the darnest things, this bunch does exactly that. Fart, buggers, and kudies are hot topics for kids at their age, but what amazes me is the questions they ask. During election time my cousin Alexis asked me who I was going to vote for and she is only 6. Often times they get these topics from their parents which brings me to the main reason I'm writing this blog...

My separation from my Catholic faith has been very obvious over the past 8 years, I thought that maybe I would be a better Christian so I tried that in High School, only to realize it wasn't the church, religion, or priest at fault. I simply realized what took me many many many years for me to face, I just didn't have faith in any of it. It was scary to realize something like that especially having a VERY traditional Mexican family. You might as well consider yourself the worst person in the family. VERY few people understand my stand on religion, faith,God, Jesus, etc.

After a serious conversation about my faith, with adults in my family, word let out and led to the question, "Why don't you believe in God?" from my little 6-11 year old cousins.

It breaks my heart to hear my little cousins think of my as a "bad example". They are much too young to understand something like this. No matter how great I am to them or how much I love them, to them it will always come down to, "but you don't believe in God". Someday it will make sense to them that it's not about religion, gender, orientation, skin color, etc. Instead it's about who you are and being true to what you believe.

My life motto is: Love, Faith, Respect

LOVE the people around you and the things you do.

Have FAITH in the people you love, in yourself, and the things you accomplish or are trying to get done.

Have RESPECT for everyone and everything.

I guess my main request is that people, with kids, around kids, related to kids, etc. Think twice about what you teach or talk to them about. They learn from the adults, instead of being closed minded let them be free spirits with open minds they have a whole world of adventures.

It's easier to believe and have faith than it is to not to.---Trust Me!

I really hope this didn't offend anyone, because that's the last thing I would ever want to do.