Through my emergence from oppressive theological systems to a way of life, certain ideas that were confusing to me before are suddenly starting to make more sense.

Even though i have been aware of this for quite some time, this thought keeps coming back to me lately.

If Noah and Job were neither Jews nor Christians, how were they declared ( Read more... )

Joy is an experience of overflowing, an explosion of surprise. Something enters a person's life for which he could never be prepared and his tidy self erupts in song, dance, and joy.

Approach the Divine with a calculated mind and there is no window for joy. Embrace the infinite beyond mind and joy surges downward.

~ Chabad.orgi couldn't agree ( Read more... )

i just learned what my first steps can be in forging my way of life...

Each morning, right upon awakening, i should take a moment - the first moment of my new day - to acknowledge G-d for returning my soul to me.

i can say to G-d:

i offer thanks to you, O living and everlasting One, that you have restored my soul within me; great is your ( Read more... )

i have been thinking about my life and where i have been and where i am going, spiritually. Especially in light of the book i'm reading and contemplating. i have been reflecting on my life in five-year increments thinking about my faith and how it has developed. When i was five years old, my faith was not a system of beliefs nor a way of life, ( Read more... )

i am reading and working through a book by Brian McClaren called "Finding Our Way Again". Though written by a Christian author, it is written in a way that it can be applied to all Western faiths (for me that would be Judaism). It is the first in an upcoming series of books on reclaiming ancient spiritual practices such as perpetual prayer, ( Read more... )

A shepherd was tending flock in the hills of Judah. He became thirsty and went to his favorite brook in the hills to take a drink. As he was drawing the crystal clear water in his palm and putting it to his mouth, something caught his eye. He saw drops of water falling on a huge stone - drip, drop - and directly where the drops were falling there ( Read more... )