What to believe?

According to modern day Christianity it's Lent.  I am on a personal journey right now.  Actually, I think I've always been on a personal journey.  I've never been comfortable with halloween or christmas, even as a child.  And as I'm finally admitting to myself of the conflict within, how do I know the "religion" I belong to is the church I should be listening to?  I am so confused. 

I don't see anything in the Bible about celebrating easter.  I see I'm supposed to celebrate passover, feast of tabernacles, etc., but not easter.  Don't get me wrong.  I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.  I believe He died for my sins and rose from the dead.  But I cannot find dates.  I cannot find a birth date either.  I've been researching and have noticed easter and christmas are situated around pagan celebrations.  The same with all souls day.  Coincidence?   How can easter always fall on a Sunday?  The Bible teaches of many false religions and how reading the Bible and learning God's laws are up to each of us.

But yet I believe in saints.  I believe in the Blessed Mother.  I believe in sacraments.  I believe in the apostles. I believe in communion.  In fact, receiving communion gives me a warm feeling of renewal.  

If anything, I hope you research for yourself.  Read your Bible.  Research dates and pagan festivals.  Follow what the Bible instructs to celebrate and express it to your children.  You are your child's teacher.  You set the groundwork for their beliefs.  Most of all, follow your heart and follow your soul.  Pray for guidance.  Bless your children.  I do it every night before I tell them I love them


Eternal life.  It's what we all strive for.  Death?  We shouldn't fear it.

The spring equinox is one of the four great solar festivals of the year. Day and night are equal, poised and balanced, but about to tip over on the side of light. The spring equinox is sacred to dawn, youth, the morning star and the east. The Saxon goddess, Eostre (from whose name we get the direction East and the holiday Easter) is a dawn goddess, like Aurora and Eos. Just as the dawn is the time of new light, so the vernal equinox is the time of new life. Celebrating the Seasons: Winter Solstice Lore and Rituals by Selena Fox Winter Solstice also known as Yule, Christmas, and Saturnalia, occurs in mid December. It celebrates the birth of the new Solar year and the beginning of Winter. The Goddess manifests as the Great Mother and the God as the Sun Child. The God also appears as Santa Claus and Old Man Winter. Colors are Red, Green, and White. This is a festival of inner renewal. Strengthen bonds with family and friends by visiting and/or exchanging gifts and greetings. Decorate your home with lights, greens, and holiday colors. Bless your home with a Yule wreath on your front door and sprigs of mistletoe inside. If you are part of a group, take up a collection of food and/or clothing at your Yule gathering and give what you collected to a social service agency to distribute to the needy (for example, Circle's Yuletide Charity Food Drive).