In John 9:1-18 the bible teaches us the story of God healing the Blind man from Madagascar.  When the disciples approached the Blind man, they asked God. “Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?” Why did the disciples ask God the REASON this man was born blind? That’s like me walking up to a woman who can’t bear children of her own and saying “How come your sister can have kids and you can’t? Were you a slut?”  The reasons that we go through things aren’t as relevant as how we get out of those situations.

The blind man never asked to see, yes he begged at the temple for food and money  but the blind man never even went to the temple on Sunday. His faith in God wasn’t so strong that he was going to church and praying for God to heal him of his blindness. Most of us who are going through things our entire lives never ask to be healed. We go through life not even HOPING that the things we have lived through will change because we have been so stuck in the reality of the situation.  The blind man lived all those years of his life not seeing for 1 reason: To know that the works of God were alive and reveled.

I’ve lived my life like this. Living from day to day not  expecting major miracles because that is my reality. My reality is that, yes God will bless me, and yes sometimes he will bless me further than I can imagine, but no there isn’t a miracle happening on my street.

Yes I go to church and I follow God’s word, but no, I’m not going to just hit the lottery, or win a brand new car! I know that my works are done to please God and my faith is built on Jesus’ love.

So what is my point in this? We need to start expecting miracles. We need to start having more faith in God’s miracles. Having more faith that when we walk out into the street, we may meet someone who will give us all the desires of our hears. That God doesn’t just grant us our desires but he gives us miracles everyday.

I often thought that miracles in the bible were just that, miracles that were told in stories that I would never get to see myself but God has granted miracles 4 me. I don’t know what’s about to happen in my life, or your life, but I am expecting a miracle. Not just because I know God can grant a miracle but because I know he WILL grant miracles!

Verse 4 OF THIS same passage says “4 “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.

What have we done through our works that would make God want to grant us a miracle. The devil wants you to have a job, but God wants you to work. Work on healing the generational gaps in our families, work on restoring the brokenness in our lives, work on opportunities that will bless others.

If we don’t want to work, God will take us away from our jobs.

Remember the Blind Man Never Asked to See. Will you take the time to See the Miracles in your life that God is preparing you fro or will you continue the job that you think you are here on earth to do?

Why is it when you like someone they don’t like you and when someone likes you, you don’t like them?

This question has been boggling my brain all week! Life never ceases to amaze me. There is this guy that I really like, funny, caring warm etc etc and he always acts like he’s “JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU” but then will tell me he likes me the next day. Leaving me confused as hell thinking he really isn’t that into just wants to get something out of the deal of ‘”dating me”

Then there is another guy that LOVES me, will do any and everything for me. Thinks the earth and sea were made because of me. He is a great guy but just not my type. If he takes me out, I’m thinking about the other guy who basically doesn’t even acknowledge me half of the time.

So my question is this: Why do the ones we really like act like they don’t like us and the ones that really like us, we have no interest in?

I guess I answered my own question in that the more interest we show to people the more they dislike us. But this is my thing, If I really like you, I will show you! I want to spend time with you doing nothing at all but just spending time with you in your company. So whats the problem in this?

“Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, Every story we’re told implores us to wait for it, the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes we’re so focused on finding our happy ending we don’t learn how to read the signs. How to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don’t, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe a happy ending doesn’t include a guy, maybe… it’s you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is… just… moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope.”

It’s the Sunday after CIAA and I am in my hotel business center alone. Nobody here but me. It sounds normal, maybe. But I can’t remember the last time I have been alone either at home in Atlanta or outside of Atlanta and just had NOTHING to do! It feels so weird but there is always a calmness after the storm.

Charlotte is BEAUTIFUL and bright and brisk today! I actually love the weather here. Other than CIAA, I am here to start on a new endeavour. If you are close to me you know what it is. I am assured that if it’s according to God’s will I will be moving closer to that goal asap.

But times have been crazy I have been running around the city of Atlanta nonstop for the past few weeks. I haven’t had a time to sleep much less just chill and enjoy life. Yesterday, I was at the airport for 7 hours because I missed my flight to Charlotte and I had the most engaging time! My friend who works at the airport came to sit with me, I met an awesome new connect/business friend and I really enjoyed the alone time.

My point is make alone time.  I didn’t realize how important it is until now. I love staying busy but alone time is essential for my mental health. I wasn’t even sure if I was going to MAKE IT to Charlotte! Much less be alone for the weekend. But God gave me everything I needed to be here at this ordained time.

All is according to God’s will the people you meet, the things that happen and the situations you are placed in and I am so grateful to have this alone time! You should join me and go into your prayer closet and spending a lot of time with God today and tomorrow. I pray everyday, but I think that for times such as this in such a transition stage, its important to ask GOD specifically for the things that we desire. God will always grant us the desires of our heart if they are within his will and time. I learned to ask and receive a long time ago and I’m still working on it! It’s a challenge because often we think that God knows all and sees all. But truth of the matter is that we have to have personal and intimate daily conversations with him about our desires.  We have to ask and believe. Faith without works is dead.

So I challenge you today to MAKE some alone time. I don’t care how many things you have to do. Make at least 30min-1hr of time for you. Wether its  reading a book or walking in the beautiful weather. Spend time alone with your thoughts and God! I promise you will see the increase in your life.

I have gotten a lot of questions about Lent so I have decided to break it down for everyone.

Lent starts on TODAY, Ash Wednesday.

The Bible does not mention Ash Wednesday or the Lenten celebration as a custom, however, the practice of repentance and mourning in ashes is found in Ezekiel 27:30 And they will make their voice heard over you And will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads, They will wallow in ashes.

Ashes were used in the Bible, to express mourning

During Ash Wednesday services, the pastor rubs a cross with ashes onto the foreheads of worshipers. In our church, the ashes come from the Palms from the previous Palm Sunday

We call Lent a Celebration because it is the time of the year when we prepare for the return of Jesus 40 days before Easter. The 6 Sundays in this season are not counted. In the bible, Jesus spent forty days in the desert before he began his ministry to the public and received constant attacks from Satan.  in Matthew 4 1:-2 it says 1Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

The traditional purpose of Lenten  is to prepare Christians through prayer, penitence and self-denial for the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection. Most people do not KNOW that Easter or Resurrection Sunday is the biggest day in the Christian year! This is the day we celebrate Jesus being  resurrected from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion and sitting on the right hand of God the Father Almighty!

The modern custom to also give up something a Christian enjoys or loathes in during the Lenten season is not required or part of any rule, it is merely a time to do like Jesus and fast and pray. To give Jesus a sacrifice and focus more on him. It is a fasting period were some choose to give up meat, candy,sweets, etc and during that time focus on Praying and growing closer with God. It isn’t merely a “test” to see if for 40 days you can stop eating candy or you will stop doing a task, it is the time of the year you should be the closest with GOD!

In the book of Isiah the 58th Chapter and 3rd Chapter Verse 3-7, it speaks of fasting as this:

3‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.
4Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the LORD?

6“Is not this the fast that I choose:to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
7Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

So this Lenten season fast not  because you think it is “Right” or a “ritual” fast because Jesus called for us to fast in times such as this. Jesus wants us to grow closer to him and his word to grow closer to our purpose. Pray that during the Lenten season Jesus will move those things that are flesh and allow more of himself to come in! I promise when Easter comes you will be a renewed spirit!

So what are you giving up for Lent and Why?

Peace and Blessings!

We’ve heard the song before! But how many of us really wonder what the lonely do on Christmas DAY? Merry Christmas Everyone! Welcome to the land of the lonely.

So what did this Lonely Lady do on Christmas. Well so far, I’ve cleaned my house from top to bottom. 2 bathrooms, my room, the kitchen, living room, den, and polished the wood. Yeah and its only 12:30. Lol I figure in order to keep myself from feeling lonely, I have to clean till I can’t move! lol

So again I ask what do the lonely do at Christmas. I have many friends who are single, and some who are involved but still feel lonely on this Christmas day. So what is the perfect remedy so that there is no feeling of loneliness on Christmas?

Give love on Christmas Day! This morning I woke up and I won’t ever forget how last year, I was single but I was in the bed with my lil 4-year-old cousin. He woke up @ 5am. I made him sleep till 7. My mom, my aunt, my sister and brother we all woke up and opened gifts. That was a beautiful Christmas morning!

Everywhere we go, there are reminders of love and comfort on Christmas! The songs are all cheery, everyone is out shopping for each other! But what about the homeless people in the world, who only have themselves. Or the girl who has just had a baby and the father is not there anymore. Give love to someone else and I promise you won’t be lonely. Wether its calling a friend you haven’t talked to in a while, or going to visit a family member you haven’t seen in years. Give love on Christmas DAY!

Regardless of everything going on, I woke up Happy! I finally got the sewing machine I’ve asked for years for, my family is healthy and happy and I have accomplished so much since this time last year.

So instead of feeling sorry for yourself this Christmas and feeling lonely because you don’t have the love of someone you want. Be grateful to God that he has blessed you to live another year! Give love to someone else, text your friends (NOT MASS TEXT) and have a great Christmas

Peace and Blessings

Miss. Jenee

As I sit here on this cold and rainy day in Atlanta I’m reading “the Conversation” by Hill Harper. This book is powerful beyond words and that combined with “Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man” are my favorite books of the year. Mainly because they expound upon the facts of how hard it is to be in a relationships based on such easy rules.

Let me break it down in relationship to Twitter. I’m a very active twitter user. I have over 1k followers and I tweet over 30times a day. I ♡ tweeting because it’s an open exchange of peoples inner thoughts and doings. Long story short, Twitter is so easy, it’s nearly impossible to explain. But when you give the tool of twitter to the right person, it can move them to say things they never said and make all kinds of friends they never even would have been introduced to!

That’s how relationships are. The innermost workings of relationships are very easy. Steve Harvey said it best when he said ” All Men want is, support,♡ and the “Cookie”. Those 3 things sound so easy but they are fundamentally the same things that makes a man leave a woman. She’s not supportive of him and his needs. Men don’t want to admit it but there is nothing better than a woman they can tell their dreams to. Someone they can tell that although they have a job as a mechanic being a teacher one day isn’t a far-fetched idea.  They want a woman who feels like they need them. A woman who goes to her man instead of going to her girlfriends when she has issues in her life.

Men will always “protect, provide and profess” in the words of Steve Harvey.  Providing isn’t about who makes more money it’s about offering emotional, financial and physical support. Being there is 1 of the most important things about being in a relationship. The companionship that a woman provides a man is indescribable.
I’ve heard it time and time again, it matters more to a man if a woman makes herself “available” to him. Not nagging or demanding things from him but creating an open line of communication. Being vulnerable and allowing him to provide and protect you.
I’m not a man and I’m very single so I don’t know it all, but I do know this; ♡ is the only real connective that allows us to not live and die alone. ♡ gives us purpose beyond ourselves. We all live just to be loved eternally.

When did it become so hard to ♡? When did the complexities of our beings make it hard for someone to ♡ us? When do we wake up and realize that ♡ is so pure it heals hurts and provides us with all of our wishes. Why don’t you understand how easy it is to ♡ someone and allow someone to ♡ u. ♡ is easy, relationships are hard.

I’ve been in love before. Matter of fact I have been in love 3 times in my life. It has been other times when I told him “I love you” just because I wanted or needed something but genuine love 3xs.

My 1st love was pure. It was for 2 years when I was in high school. He was in college. All the high school boys HATED me because they kept saying “he doesn’t want a high school girl, he’s cheating on you” Little did they know, that dude LOVED ME, I actually cheated on him before he cheated on me! Sucks I know. But I was 15-17 young and dumb and I didn’t realize how great of a man I had.

My 2nd Love, I guess he was karma from my 1st. It lasted about 2 years too. Although, I NEVER treated my 1st like I treated my 2nd treated me. I would do any and everything for my 2nd. Matter of fact, I did his homework, cleaned his house, washed his clothes, cooked him dinner etc etc and the MFer was cheating on me PROBABLY since day 1. I didn’t even KNow ain’t that a BISH. At least in my 1st Love it wasn’t until the last month or so that I cheated. ANYWAY ON TO THE NEXT..I was hurt  but I moved on, it was some sort of forewarning that he was a DOG! How am I talking to your sister on the phone on Thanksgiving and you have another girl there?! Wasn’t I just with your fam last Thanksgiving! TRIFE!

3rd Love How is it possible to fall in love with someone in a matter of weeks. He was my 1st. 1st guy I really fell immediately for. Within weeks I knew I loved him. No it wasn’t lust and matter of fact we weren’t even engaging in sex at that point. But he was THERE, he cared, he listened, he understood my faults and loved me regardless. Or so I thought…if he couldn’t handle me at my worst, than he SURE doesn’t deserve me at my best. Gave him my all and bam “he dumped me” Now aint that a bish! lol

What I have learned from these 3 men is this : You can’t control how you feel but you sure as hell can control how they treat you. I’m so glad I got the chance to love because everyone doesn’t have those same opportunities.

I’ve been single for months. Only a couple dates with a few people that haven’t “hit the spot” and honestly I’m focusing on my newest venture in the world of catering! It would be GREAT to have someone that was by my side and supporting me and helping me! The thing about love is, you have to be willing to spend as much time working on your own goals and your own career as you do working on the relationship and making sure your mate has everything together as well. It’s give and take, its sacrifice its so much. If you want to know about Love read my former blogs.

But I’m saying all this to say, don’t cry over spilled milk. I just cried today because I had an ex (1 of the 3) who decides to leave me vms and Message me but won’t return my messages! Where they do that at. I love him today just as much as I did the 1st day I met him. I have to remind myself you CAN NOT control how you feel. I may be over “us” but his Love consumes me because it was a feeling that won’t ever be replaced. I can’t listen to certain songs, or go certain places because it reminds me of him. Weird as hell considering I’m a G and I don’t do all that emotional stuff. But truth is I have learned to understand my feelings.

I’m embracing my feelings and you should to.  When I broke up with my ex, I cried for DAYS! I mean DAYS, I couldn’t understand how something so “perfect” turned into a fail. But God’s plan isn’t always our plan and I’m glad to know he ORDERS my steps and everything that is supposed to happen has happened and more importantly I have accept the facts and looked at my fears of loneliness, disapproval, forgetfulness and tossed them out. There are done and over. I accept my feelings but I live through them. I’m sleeping with a broken heart but I’m happy!

And its better to have loved than Not loved at all

XOXOXO

Jeneé

I have been fighting with myself over what to say in my bog lately. I am tired of writing about love. I am over the gossip and the news and I don’t want to reveal my fashion tips for fall quiet yet..

But God has laid it on my heart to blog tonight. When I’m alone and full of emotion my heart expounds with Love. True Love, for myself and for those who read my blogs. Truth is, I started this blog for YOU. Yes YOU reading right now. I started it so that you wouldn’t make the same mistakes that I have and so that you wouldn’t have to endure the same pain that I have felt. And it has felt good. My ex learned a lot about me through reading this blog, I have had strangers tell me they NEEDED some of my postings and I have relieved some major heartbreak and heartache through my stories in this blog. But 1 thing is for sure is that the BEST IS YET TO COME!

Since I got dumped (Yes, I’m transparent a HELL) I haven’t been out. Not because I can’t but because my desire to meet new people is pretty much non-existent. I don’t like the cat and mouse chase. Yes I get approached every where I go and YES I am so GRATEFUL that God made me beautiful but it annoys me that I CAN’T just go pick up my mom or go to the grocery or even DRIVE without a man trying to holla at me. Why can’t you just enjoy my beauty, say hello and move on. I am not even the type that is approachable and that is usually my downfall when it comes to meeting people who really are deserving.

I’ve dated all kinds of men, post-graduate degree men, preachers, lawyers, athletes, musicians,artist, barbers/hair stylists. etc. But 1 thing I’ve learned is that a job doesn’t make a man. I have given the men I loved inspiration to start and continue businesses, done homework for them while in grad school and I have even cleaned  their homes from top to bottom. I’ve gotten thank you and Gifts but nothing is more powerful than the love I have gotten in return. The thing is I couldn’t be with an athlete or a musician because I require time and attention. Buying my love does NOT work. I deserve a man who has a very personal relationship with God, works, takes care of  his child (if they have 1) and takes care of me!

For so long I wanted a man like my family/ friends told me I should have. 1 that is a college graduate, 1 without children, 1 who grew up with ‘things” but truth of the matter is all I want is a man who loves me. I have yet to find a man that is like what everyone wanted me to have that loved me for me.

I don’t care if you drive a Honda or a Hummer . If you work at UPS or Merrill Lynch. All I care about is if you love me and would take care of me. Everything else will work itself out. I’d rather push a man to start his own business than deal with a man who has everything and never worked for anything a day in their life! Just a hard working black man who understands I have expensive taste, I like to have nice things and I will work hard to get them as long as he works hard with me.

It saddens me that I have friends that wont date a guy because of his income bracket. But how would you feel if a man told you he didn’t want to date you because you make $35k and he makes $1.5million a year?  Double standards kill me! Steve Harvey said it best when he said “IF a Man loves you, he will always Profess, Provide and Protect” If a man doesn’t try his hardest to provide for you he doesn’t love you in the 1st place. So my thing is go for the man who loves you and is willing to work with you FLAWS and ALL.

I know he’s coming to my life, so I’m sure he’s coming to yours!

Love and Blessings

Miss.Jenee

Love is the 1 WORD in the entire universe that everyone wants to define but rarely understands

Love is the 1 WORD that people long for their entire lives, can’t live without and grow up trying to obtain

Love is.. you … love is me.. love is my lil cousin Bradley when he’s hugging my neck.. Love is birds chirping..Love is a simple melody.. Love is inside of each one of us

But what is love? How do you define love in a simple definition? I propose that in order to Love you must know God because God is love.

Contrary to popular belief Love is not an emotion, it isn’t the jitters you get when someone you admire walks into the room, love isn’t about kissing and hugging and “making love”. Love is a personification of God’s love shown to us.

The bible shows us exactly what love is in

1 Corinthians 13

If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ²If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,^[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. ¹²Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

This is the definition of love. So often we get caught up on the “feelings” of love and not the actual understanding of love.

I’ve been “in love” a few times, and it was always about feeling, until recently. I was at my lowest point,  and Love found me. I had to have a surgery, Love was there. Love came to church with me, Love listened to me, Love encouraged me, Love understood my flaws. This time Love was real. I gave Love my last and love didn’t even know it..But then I lost Love.. No I didn’t fall out of Love, but Love left me…As quickly as I found Love, Love decided they didn’t want to Love anymore…Yes it hurt and will probably hurt for years to come because Love was good to me, and it wasn’t an emotion but rather a personification of Love that was always in my heart.

Thing about Love is, its not as simple to some as it is to others. Yes, I’ve been hurt and I’ve wanted to not love. But I know that God is the giver of LOVE and the taker of all things and every pure and perfect thing comes from GOD! I embrace Love because I encompass Love!

In the vows that people make when  they get married it never speaks of emotions or feelings it speaks directly to agape love:

“To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death.”

The vows are a promise between God, and the couple. That regardless of the emotions either are encountering that they will ALWAYS be there for each other.  Do you love your mate that much? To be with him/her after he/she has lost everything, to be with them and ALWAYS support them? That’s what love is, LOVE IS ALWAYS there, Love is giving, love is the maker of all things new!Love can only grow in an atmosphere of honesty.

All anyone wants in life is love. So the next time you tell someone you love them, make sure you understand what love is and how powerful true love is.  I pray that God sends you real love and I pray that he sends it to me too!

I know I am opening up a can of worms but I figure WHY NOT!

People my age 22-30 don’t go to church. Church has become a very taboo thing in my generation because they automatically think a person judges them once they walk in the church. Although, I am a very devoted church goer, I believe church folks can be some of the worse folks. But what makes church people so “different” from every other person in this world. People are so quick to say “I’m spiritual, I’m not religious”  Did you not know that Christianity is a RELIGION. THE only way you can go to heaven is if you are saved and you ask God to forgive you of your sins? Muslims don’t believe in heaven or hell, Buddist don’t either. So your “Religion” is Christianity even if you make up your own self taught theology, you are religious if you believe in Jesus and Heaven/Hell

Here are my main points of why we need to attend church

1. Your mind gets so caught up in people, places and things when you are at home. Yes Its ok to pray and read your bible and be able to have your own worship at home in front of the computer or TV with many of the televangelist but the easiest place to “Find” God and encounter God is when you are at a place where you can COMPLETELY focus on him! How many times have you tried to watch a Televangelist on TV or on Youtube and been distracted? When you are in the house of the Lord, your only choice is to focus on him. Our thoughts get so confused and wrapped up when we are at home we end up confusing ourselves.

2. To be Around like minded people. I know you are thinking people will “judge” you when you attend church. But let me tell you church folks are the ones who know that regardless of my situation God is going to be there. He said “come as you are” meaning come even when you were drunk the night before or even when you cussed out your entire family before you left the house. God wants you t0 have peace in your heart. Believe it or not people in church have been through the same things you have been through if not worse and God has brought them through!!

3. To tithe. yes I said it, tithing is a beautiful thing! EVERYTHING comes from God, that Job, your check EVERYTHING comes from God. It is only right if you give him a measly 10%. You spend more than that on a cell phone bill! I gave a testimony at church on yesterday. The sum of the testimony was: even with being laid off I have given  my tithes and my offerings because every dollar I get is coming for the Lord and as a result I have continually been blessed! I have NO idea how I am able to afford or do the things I do without a job or a real income but the LORD has provided me with more than enough and for that I am grateful. How can a church pay its bills without tithes or feed the hungry or visit the sick. Do you realize when you die, there is going to be a preacher who prays over your body and flowers etc. Why wait on the day of your funeral why not have a pastor and a church family who loves you be there for you?

I know some of the hardest parts of making the decision to attend church is because you feel like you aren’t “Doing right” b ut let me tell you, you will NEVER be doing right! You will never be perfect and time is not yours to determine only Gods! You never know the second, minute or hour God will take you from this earth. And as I am writing this I pray that God blesses each of those who read this to become saved. Being saved is the ONLY way to go to heaven. Its not really about church or reading the bible or anything else but confessing with your mouth and believing in your heart that Jesus is a living sacrifice. Understanding and asking God to forgive you of your sins because he sent his ONLY son Jesus to save us from our sins so that we can have eternal life!