BITR...Why I Believe in Jesus

The reason that I believe in Jesus is because I know that without believing and trusting in Him I would probably literally go CRAZY. I have a real problem with over worrying and fretting about things...even things that are beyond my control. I think that I must have "inherited" this characteristic, problem, whatever, from my dad, who is the biggest worrier I know. Anyways, I have always "believed" in Jesus as long as I can remember. Probably from as early as learning "Jesus Loves Me this I Know". I grew up in a Christian family and was always in church, so I guess it was just a given that I would grow to believe in Jesus. But not until I got older did I really see why I needed and wanted to believe in Jesus. With all of my worries that accumulate in my "psychotic" little mind , I have to know that everything is going to be okay. I put my trust and beliefs in Jesus, that He will get me through each day, that He will help me know that "we will make it to the next paycheck", that "the truck breaking down AGAIN" is not the end of the world, that "I can watch my kids ride their bikes and not think they are going to wreck and bleed everywhere", that "Andy's not going to have an accident on the school bus because he has 70 shrilling, heathen kids sitting behind him". I have to know that everything will be alright or I would surely go CRAZY. Jesus gives me this peace of mind that everything is going to be okay and that one day I will be with Him in Heaven and NEVER, EVER have anymore worries. My reasons are many and way too long to list on this simple blog. My question is, how can you not believe in Jesus/God when you look around, experience the birth of life, to live, to breath, and to die.

BITR...Where would I live in?

if i could live anywhere other than the "good ole US of A" i would probably pick somewhere in africa. i know that some of you are thinking..."why on earth would that be the place that you would live?" well, here is why...yes, the united states is a ~good~ country to live in, but we are very, very spoiled!! many of us, including myself, are so used to having everything pretty much handed to us and life seems so simple compared to the lives of people in other countries, that we have lost our sense of helplessness. we don't even have the slightest clue what it means to do without. to live in a place like africa would be a very humbling experience. to see, up close and personal, what it means to "do without" and "go without". i get on to my kids all the time when they get mad or pitch a fit for not getting what they want, whether it be some type of food or something materialistic that "so-in-so" has. but i do the exact same thing, minus the throwing myself into the floor and pitching a fit....well, at least most of the time. i, myself, need to be brought back to reality. i would be willing to live in africa not only to be humbled, but to have a hands on experience of feeding the hungry and the poor, to see first hand what it is like for someone to starve to DEATH. to see the diseases that babies and kids share that we have only heard of here in the united states. just from pictures, news stories, etc have i seen what goes on in africa, and we only have our tiny little brains to imagine what it would be like there. that is why i would be willing to live in africa so i may see what this poverty stricken land goes through on an every day basis. to feel the hopelessness, to lack the sense of any hope that tomorrow will bring, to have disease after disease throughout your land, and to feel the hunger and thirst that has been brought upon them. i feel that GOD is good, but i am confused sometimes when i see people here in the states with so much, more than anyone could ever use, and then you have these poverty stricken countries that bury their dead on a daily basis because of the lack of food, water, and medicines. i just haven't seemed to figure that one out yet. i know that GOD loves them as much as anyone else, but why does it seem like HE has left them out....just for living in a land that is poor!