The Main Questions: Why I am here and where am I going?
I began writing about and sharing this journey within a safe and accepting community where it's been safe to do so. It has been such an important process in the exploration of this very personal though certainly not unique journey that I decided to share it here on my blog. This is an edited version of my introduction that I shared in my spiritual community.
Not knowing exactly how to begin, I’ve been reading other’s posts and thinking a lot about what I wanted to say. So in trying to decide how to start I had to go back to the beginning. This is what my first week developed: When trying to understand exactly how I arrived where I am spiritually, I’ve begun to write an essay reviewing how religion, experiences and people, influenced the direction, depth and scope of my understanding and emotional pull toward or away from the subject. It is difficult to exactly classify where I stand these days, but ambivalent agnostic/relieved atheist fits the bill today. But that may certainly change. Perhaps you have also experienced something similar, or are similarly teasing out those things that up until now influenced you without you actually examining them from all sides. Whatever the case may be I hope these posts touch you somehow or at least touch a nerve. If you are looking for a safe place to journey and share faith issues from any faith or non-faith, I know a great place to do so, e-mail me and I will share it with you. |
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