Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Nobody ever warned me how OCD and scrupulosity can take the thing you care about most (your faith) and turn it against you…..

Growing up evangelical, I was taught that your personal conscience is law. God uses the Holy Spirit to guide and convict us through our innermost selves. So when the conscience speaks, not to listen is a sin. Your conscience can be mistaken, of course, but really only in one direction: a seared conscience…