{"id":21947,"date":"2018-07-26T20:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T01:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=21947"},"modified":"2021-03-05T08:38:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:38:55","slug":"21947-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/21947-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking by Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So I have to tell you all something.\u00a0 In 2014, I stepped away from the Mormon religion and walked into mainstream Christianity.\u00a0 For a Mormon girl, this is a big deal.\u00a0 My close friends and family have known for years and been wonderful – for which I am grateful.\u00a0 It now feels like the right time to be more open about my choice just because I never want to feel like I am hiding anything from any of my readers (whom I regard as friends).\u00a0 I haven’t mentioned it before now just because I didn’t want to offend any of my wonderful Mormon readers and I also didn’t know really quite what to say.\u00a0 \u00a0My journey has been filled with ups and downs\u00a0 – as all faith-building experiences are.\u00a0 And while any big change can be difficult, I have been in a happy-peace with my decision.\u00a0 I am sure some are wondering why I left. For those within the LDS church, I would say it was the usual culprits: polygamy, racism, sexism, LGBTQ, etc.\u00a0 But to put it simply, what it really came down to for me was I felt like the doctrine of the church was telling me one thing, and the God I know and love was saying another.\u00a0 After years of turmoil, I made my decision and felt peace.\u00a0 I know so many people find peace within the walls of the LDS religion and I don’t judge them at all (as I hope they don’t judge me) and I hope they continue to go.\u00a0 I think everyone should hold onto what brings them closer to the Almighty.\u00a0 \u00a0And to those few who may be reading this and don’t find peace through their church, I say – don’t give up on finding the path that brings you closer to God.\u00a0 Throughout the past few years, I have questioned a lot of things, but I do know for sure, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0As long as you are reaching for God, you will be found.\u00a0 God has answered all my prayers.\u00a0 Not always how I’ve wanted \ud83d\ude42 but all have been answered.\u00a0 I pray yours will be answered too.\u00a0 God is there for us and wants us to be happy.\u00a0 I hope we can all help each other on our path to being more as God would want us to be. Thanks for listening.\u00a0 Yours faithfully, Loralee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I have to tell you all something.\u00a0 In 2014, I stepped away from the Mormon religion and walked into mainstream Christianity.\u00a0 For a Mormon girl, this is a big deal.\u00a0 My close friends and family have known for years and been wonderful – for which I am grateful.\u00a0 It now feels like the right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034,1024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lewis-family-2","category-inspiration-and-life-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21947"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22852,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions\/22852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}