Rob and I go to church together on Easter, but it's... weird for me. It's just *strange* being in a church now with a real church "service" and all the pomp and the objects and the sacraments and everything... but might make a post on my blog about that later...
I would read your proposed journal, but at the same time I sort of find it a shame when people separate out their lives like that: for me LJ is about all of me in one place, when I have to be different things for different people offline. Up to you.
And I am a bit gobsmacked by how similar your relationship to spiritual/ religious ritual and dogma is to mine. I would love to find the community and sharing that I found in the church as a kid (no matter how much it wasn't a community that the adult me would be very welcome in), but it's so important to me to think and consider and not to rely on a script that I feel like any opting-in I did there would be a betrayal of what I'm trying to live out. But a space to consider that stuff alongside others...
maybe I actually take the plunge, post filtered posts here but for my own benefit actually start a seperate blog on the theme of quaking. In my groovy boots obviously.
"a space to consider that stuff alongside others" is what brought me back to meeting and the society as a whole.
This section of the red book speaks to me most at the moment. "Some among us have a clear sense of what is right and wrong - for themselves personally if not for everyone else. They have a reassuring certitude and steadiness which can serve as a reference point by which others may navigate. There are others who live in a state of uncertainty, constantly re-thinking their responses to changing circumstances, trying to hold onto what seems fundamental but impelled to reinterpret, often even unsure where lies the boundary between the fundamental and the interpretation
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would love to read your quakings in a ducklike manner.
sigh. and i'm so with you on the difficulty of being a Christian Friend. i find myself every year feeling led to go back to catholic church during holy week. this year, i spent the evening of good friday with my cousin seeing a play about life for a family living in an all-black US frontier town in 1898, which seemed like a good way of observing and reflecting on the ways in which societies continue to crucify the marginalized. and last night i went to easter vigil at the local church, which seems dedicated (as much as the vatican will let them) to egalitarianism and social justice. in fact, the sermon and rituals kept circling back to the miracle of being able to find christ in oneself
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It's a shame that it's not more acceptable to skip between different churches. I'm happy being part of my meeting, but I do like midnight mass and a few other things through the year.
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Rob and I go to church together on Easter, but it's... weird for me. It's just *strange* being in a church now with a real church "service" and all the pomp and the objects and the sacraments and everything... but might make a post on my blog about that later...
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And I am a bit gobsmacked by how similar your relationship to spiritual/ religious ritual and dogma is to mine. I would love to find the community and sharing that I found in the church as a kid (no matter how much it wasn't a community that the adult me would be very welcome in), but it's so important to me to think and consider and not to rely on a script that I feel like any opting-in I did there would be a betrayal of what I'm trying to live out. But a space to consider that stuff alongside others...
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maybe I actually take the plunge, post filtered posts here but for my own benefit actually start a seperate blog on the theme of quaking. In my groovy boots obviously.
"a space to consider that stuff alongside others" is what brought me back to meeting and the society as a whole.
This section of the red book speaks to me most at the moment.
"Some among us have a clear sense of what is right and wrong - for themselves personally if not for everyone else. They have a reassuring certitude and steadiness which can serve as a reference point by which others may navigate. There are others who live in a state of uncertainty, constantly re-thinking their responses to changing circumstances, trying to hold onto what seems fundamental but impelled to reinterpret, often even unsure where lies the boundary between the fundamental and the interpretation ( ... )
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sigh. and i'm so with you on the difficulty of being a Christian Friend. i find myself every year feeling led to go back to catholic church during holy week. this year, i spent the evening of good friday with my cousin seeing a play about life for a family living in an all-black US frontier town in 1898, which seemed like a good way of observing and reflecting on the ways in which societies continue to crucify the marginalized. and last night i went to easter vigil at the local church, which seems dedicated (as much as the vatican will let them) to egalitarianism and social justice. in fact, the sermon and rituals kept circling back to the miracle of being able to find christ in oneself ( ... )
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