Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT) Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end. We are all born with and continue on in our lives with eternity planted on our souls. We all know inwardly that we are created by a God. Naturally we are lead to believe otherwise in very,very powerful ways. Every emotion and impulse, every thought is directed in the opposite direction by the world. The indoctrination by society is powerful and relentless, add to that, that we do not tend to look at it from that kind of angle. Taboos are created in all directions to discourage and "snap shut" the mind from even the mere possibility of a God. We are raised up to be self sufficient. We are raised on evolution. We are raised on believing only what we can tangibly see. We are raised to consume. We are raised to fulfill our wants and desires. We are told to make a life for ourselves. We are bombarded, daily, with advertisements for every product and service imaginable. Think I'm wrong? How many name brands or companies can you name off the top of your head? I could make a list very long.. lets see, Mcdonalds, burger king, snickers, microsoft, best buy, kraft, febreze, target, goodwill, walgreens, ibm, family video, toys r us, beanie babies, mobile, exxon, wal mart, green bay packers, etc. I'm sure all, not just some, but every single one of us reading this could name many, many, many more. Now, name the twelve apostles. ... See what I mean? So we've got a world very much in our faces constantly, blasting us on all sides. And we have constant desires, pulling us in all directions. Sometimes less than helpful parents. Television screens, phone screens, and computer screens to mesmorize us more than we might imagine, into a state of blank thoughtless gazing. I'm not trying to sound like a conspiracy theorist here, I'm just saying there is an incredible amount of stimuli in the world pushing us in negative directions. Compounding this already powerfully difficult situation, the few of us legitimately exposed to religion, spirituality, whatever you want to call it, probably had a negative experience with it. If you didn't, awesome, good for you, I'd love to hear about your church, because I was not exposed to a true Christian message. I was exposed to a Catholic message. Now I'm not saying all Catholics are bad, or that Catholic churches as a whole are bad, I'm saying mine, and many others experience with it is not positive. This is what I encountered being raised at my particular Catholic church: I was faced with constant criticism. I was scared of God, because we kept having to ask him to have mercy on us. He seemed like a big scary bearded man in the clouds. The sermons seemed old, and out of date, and I took little to nothing away from the sermons that was at all applicable to modern life. If that wasn't enough, the sermons also lacked practical application of any kind. "Be holy!" Well, how do I be holy? What's the practical application? So I assumed, because I wasn't being holy, that I just couldn't be holy. I wasn't told there were methods and practical ways to develop a lifestyle of connection to God. On top of that, masses were very boring, old out of tune organ, robes, candles, lots of things I didn't understand. So that became my conception of religion, an old, out of date, one hour a week ceremonial ritual that seemed to have little relevance to my life in a fast paced technologically advanced society. And that was that, I didn't know there was any other way. So naturally I left frustrated. Thought details may be different in many of our cases, haven't many of us experiences such issues with "organized religion"? If the scientific indoctrination,