A few points of Personal Blog:
- I’ve decided that I can live with my doubts. What I do with them is another matter entirely.
- A recent discussion of Praxis-Asheville brought out a lot of accusatory comments about the oddities of the group, but no real dialogue. This was disappointing. Let me come clean: I made the whole thing up. Can we talk about it now?
- I wish I was one of the people who can get by without bothering about God and religion. But I’m not: nearly every step I take is God-haunted, every choice I make is Inshallah. Living one’s life making Apotropaic Choices is no way to be. What other way is there to live, though?
- I do well realise there is a middle ground between superstition and atheism.
- Donald referred most kindly to my “faithful heart”. If I were in love with God or Jesus or Allah or YHVH or Krishna or The Goddess or, hell, I don’t know: fill in your favourite deity or emanation here - if I were in love with The Holy the way I fall in love with a person, life wouldn’t be so superstitious. My heart may be faithful, but I don’t know how to live that.
- Just once I’d like to worship out of sheer joy of worship - and not because I have to (ie, because I’m afriad I’ll have an accident the next day on the scooter, or because Mom might die.)
- Saddest thing is, as wrong as all of this is, I know some will say this superstition is a good thing.
- Is there a way to integrate spirituality and life in a whole pattern of sacramental joy?
- Rich Traditions - Honest Questions - Shared Experience. I’ll go with that, but I also like this: A search for a more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living
Great post. I like the part about falling in love with Jesus/God. Hope you see my book for my own personal experience with falling in love with Jesus/God. All the best, Joe
Joe - thanks. I read your posts with great interest. It’s sometimes a little to heavy for me, but yes: I feel your love coming through.
No real dialogue?
Hehehe. How about “nothing like our usual 15+ comments”.
Apart from your awesome chat with me… that was good.
I did try to ask specific questions… specifically of Larry and Fr Ernesto. (Larry’s stil got an open question related to “tradition” = “God” which I think would be an awesome conversation.)
Can equally be my own failure. But I figured now that all the writing is done, maybe more can be said.
Ah, gotcha. One of the reasons I didn’t comment on the blog entries (much, if at all - I’m not sure) is that there are certain topics I’d rather not discuss unless I can get immediate feedback. IM is an improvement over exchanging comments because you have the opportunity to correct my mis-reading right away.
Very wise and much appreciated. But… perhaps for the same reasons, I didn’t see our wonderful conversation as “blog-alogue” so much as “blogable”.