I usually go to church EVERY Sunday, this is the first year that Ohio has had Sunday hunting. I have gone out hunting every Sunday that I could this deer season. I have made it back for church a few Sundays but usually I dont. My mom and my grandma have been trying to make me feel bad for it mostly by saying that my decision is between me and God. Well, I try to tell them how spiritual hunting is, but they seem to think that I'm just trying to justify going.....but I'm not.
When I'm in my treestand, all I can do is pray and thank the Lord for everything around me. I always have a very spiritual experience when I step into the woods. I feel close to God in the woods. He created all of what is around me, the animals, the trees, the plants, the sun, the skys, the clouds, the water in the streams, all of it is His creation. I feel close to Him, and I feel like I am doing what he wants me to do and I feel like I'm taking part in the food chain, the circle of life, the preditor prey relationship, all of that.
My parents dont hunt so they just dont get it. I can try to explain but you just cant explain hunting to a non-hunter. There arent words enough to properly explain it, believe me I have tried. I try to tell them, my mom and my grandma are the ones who really get angry or are upset that I dont go to church, that I want to go hunting, but they just still, tonight being the most recent, that they got angry. I still get to go but it is kinda.....upsetting that I cant share hunting with my family, they dont have any interest in it at all. I want them to understand and not be angry at me for wanting to get close to God in my own way rather than their way. I LOVE church, but I feel closer to God in the woods than indoors.
I wish they could get it. Well, thanks guys for letting me get this off my chest and.....rant, I guess.
Thanks
"A Country Boy Can Survive"
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