Shelley,
Thank you so much! I do have strength in my beliefs but it's not because I am a superior religious person. I am very religious but much of the time in my life when things were hard; i.e. no money and no food in the house, all we had left was prayer and belief in God. Believe me if we had had any money, we'd probably be out buying food instead of praying to God! But all we had left was our prayers and they always were answered.
You didn't lose your beliefs, you just misplaced them. Start by praying daily. God loves to have people talk to him. Not many people do these days. I think he gets lonely. Just talk to God like he's your best friend and he is. Also start reading the Bible daily. Just a few passages in the morning before you get up or at night before you go to bed. Read the old fashioned King James Bible. It's the original and also the only one they haven't tried to re-write. It's the Bible that when it was translated from Hebrew to English it was done on an island and God intervened so that the people translating it did so truthfully and they all had the same translation. When you do start reading the Bible you will come across the word "Kine". It means cows. I looked it up in a very old dictionary that I have.
God bless you! I wish you the best.
PML