Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Artemis Moon<\/p>\n
Oh, boy.\u00a0 Just got myself into another situation.\u00a0 Promising things I’m not sure I know how to accomplish.\u00a0 I hope this goes with do one thing you fear every day, month, year–whatever time frame you can stand.\u00a0 Cannot reveal details right now, but this could be a lot of fun for a lot of people or a complete bust.\u00a0 Feels like the old days when I used to do this kind of stuff all the time.\u00a0 Dream up something, contact a few folks, make it happen.<\/p>\n
Still fatigued.\u00a0 Kate says it’s my body still healing itself.\u00a0 I hope so, because it feels like I’m still sick.<\/p>\n
A friend the other day referred to herself as a lapsed Unitarian.\u00a0 Lapsed Unitarian.\u00a0 That made me wonder.\u00a0 What are the spiritual and metaphysical consequences of falling away from the only faith named for two doctrines, Unitarianism and Universalism, in which none of its members believe?<\/p>\n
I have come to see UU as a way station of sorts, a caravan serai for the pilgrim lost in the desert or high on a mountain and in need of refreshment, companionship.\u00a0 Maybe a spiritual decompression chamber where individuals are brought safely back to their spiritual sea level.\u00a0 It’s clear to me that my decompression is complete, has been complete for several years now.<\/p>\n
Now, this is probably idiosyncratic, but I’m pretty sure it’s not unusual.\u00a0 When we step away from a long time, culturally supported faith tradition like Christianity or Judaism, the lag time for decompression can be lengthy.\u00a0 Not only do we have to unlearn one faith identity, we have to find or create another.\u00a0 The UU movement is perfect for that time, for the initial time of confusion and disorientation and for the development, the constructing of a new faith.\u00a0 Once that work is done however it most often results in a person anchored no longer in institutional faith, but in a place more like the world, the world of the human and the animals and the rock and the lake, a place where the spiritual moment is every moment and where the faith commitment may have an introspective, interpersonal, natural, and\/or political expression, but not an institutional one.<\/p>\n
So.\u00a0 Perhaps lapsed Unitarian is the destiny of most of us no longer inside the Christian hermeneutical circle.\u00a0 It still helps to have a place to rest along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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