I LEFT R ELIG NOT I O N FAITH STORY BY MEL BURDICK
PHOTO BY KEITH BULLARD
DESIGN BY STEPHANY FIGUEROA
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hen I was a child, Saturday was my favorite day of the week because I got to go someplace absolutely magical. A place where I didn’t have to worry about homework or chores, a place where I could dress up in my best clothes, a place where I learned about my best friend in the whole wide world: I got to go to church. To my young, impressionable mind, there was nothing more incredible than this crazy powerful Being in the sky who could split seas and raise the dead, who somehow cared about every individual human on earth. I came to love the all mighty Existence that created light with a mere word, and yet knew my name long before I was born. I would listen with avid fascination 2021 ISSUE 12 / ENVISION / 9
