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Let Christ be your Oasis
“Life sucks and then you die” – that’s what I often said and often thought as a teenager. The wreckage of my life fueled my anger, loneliness and selfishness. Life for me was an opportunity to use and hurt people for the hurt that I felt had been done to me. As I look back, my life became steadily darker. The more I did what I wanted, the more I tried to fulfill my heart’s desires, the worse I felt. It was like the void would get bigger the more I tried to fill it.


I still struggle with anger, loneliness and selfishness but, unlike before, I’m more than these things. Darkness still lurks in my heart but it no longer defines me. The void that once grew has shrunk so that it no longer fills me. Now I’m able to say that I am learning to love life.

The turning point for me was having Christ enter my life and rescue me from my own heart. The problem that I had was that I loved myself far too much. I hated God which meant I hated everyone, including me. That makes for a very destructive and lonely life. When I read the Gospel of John in the Bible I realised that Jesus actually cared for no-hopers like me.  He came to change their lives so that they would love life rather than hate life.


The Ten Commandments used to be something I would deliberately disobey. Now I realise that they are like a map of how to get through the minefield of life without getting blown to bits. I realised that my anger towards God was the source of my anger towards people. “Life sucked” because I didn’t have the life in my life. Jesus said of himself “I am the way, the truth and the Life.” If God is real, then shouldn’t he be my life? Shouldn’t he shape who I am and how I live? To me the Ten Commandments represent how I can learn to love life by loving God and loving people.


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the Rev (Chris Perona)

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