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My Spiritual Quest

My Spiritual Quest
This is one of the most difficult papers I've ever had to write, simply because I don't know how to define my spirituality. Everyone told me that it's so easy and I'll have no problem, but that's just because they are comfortable with their spirituality and know where they stand on issues related to spiritual things. They have been raised to believe a certain way. Since they were raised that way and went to Sunday School to learn everything you can know about Jesus, it just makes sense for them to still believe it now, and be able to write you a paper about it. Me on the other hand, I wasn't raised to believe in any certain thing. I've always had my beliefs, I've just never been able to define them by a particular religion, and this is something that's bothered me my entire life. "Why does everyone else get to belong to something and I don't?" is what I always asked myself when I was little. I was always told that there is I God, but I never knew anything about Him. Knowing that God is there, as a kid, meant almost nothing to me. He was there, and that was it. I knew basically nothing else. The very little I did learn, I couldn't comprehend or put together because it always came in bits and pieces.
Slowly but surely my spiritual quest started in about 6th grade when my mom got a new boyfriend, Ken, who is now her husband. I've always known my mom was into weird paranormal psychic stuff, but she never shared her beliefs on any of it with me, probably because my dad was against it, and I didn't know her new boyfriend was into it. However, the first time I met Ken, he took us to a psychic fair. That fair opened my mind to so many things. I just remember getting a psychic reading and she was dead on about everything. I wanted to know more for myself, so I turned to Ken and my mom. Ken has literally been my spiritual mentor. He never ever pushed any of his beliefs on me, but if I had a question, he'd answer it. He would always...