Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I've been walking around contemplating exactly what you wrote and how to express it. You did so with such consciousness, depth, beauty and compassion. THANK YOU.
Today I read something that's still ringing like a gong in my head: "tradition is just peer pressure from dead people." (Thank you Rev. Evelyn Bourne, "Unchurching Your Soul") As a minister in training, I am extremely grateful for those many many wise men and women and their teachings...and what is evolving now--the world that is simultaneously falling apart and growing anew--definitely calls for New Thought. New ways. New visions. If traditions keep us comfortable, they also keep us compacent. One of my favorite mantras is "I am here to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable," and there are days, like today, when there is so much I want my community to understand...I just cannot contain it all!
Years ago, before I even thought of being a minister myself, I remember sitting on a stage with a minister/ friend (!) and having conversations with our beloved community about what we believe. Learning from each other...trying new things...on and on. Thanks for that memory, btw...
Yes, yes, and yes! You have thoughtfully and clearly expressed what is calling for us to do and to be. Thank you!
Thanks Christy...glad you are on the journey.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I've been walking around contemplating exactly what you wrote and how to express it. You did so with such consciousness, depth, beauty and compassion. THANK YOU.
Thank you Veronica..It is a new day and a new time for New Thought to pave a new way.
Yes.
Today I read something that's still ringing like a gong in my head: "tradition is just peer pressure from dead people." (Thank you Rev. Evelyn Bourne, "Unchurching Your Soul") As a minister in training, I am extremely grateful for those many many wise men and women and their teachings...and what is evolving now--the world that is simultaneously falling apart and growing anew--definitely calls for New Thought. New ways. New visions. If traditions keep us comfortable, they also keep us compacent. One of my favorite mantras is "I am here to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable," and there are days, like today, when there is so much I want my community to understand...I just cannot contain it all!
Years ago, before I even thought of being a minister myself, I remember sitting on a stage with a minister/ friend (!) and having conversations with our beloved community about what we believe. Learning from each other...trying new things...on and on. Thanks for that memory, btw...
Thank you Buffie for bringing your authentic self to the conversation.
On board all the way
...and I with you.