We hope you enjoy the Oldies but Goodies we’ll be posting between now and 2011. Happy Holidays!
Control – Most of us like to think we have it. If you’ve been paying attention to the economy lately, you know just what an illusion control is. People who have worked hard their whole lives are in danger of losing their jobs, their savings, their retirement or all of the above. There is a deep feeling of anger in the general population. Why??? Because this latest downturn has affected all of us and we want to blame someone.
Continue reading » Let Go and Let God (or your higher power)
When in doubt, just take the next small step.
— Regina Brett
90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland
I’ve just finished Called Out of Darkness – A Spiritual Confession
by Ann Rice. It is beautifully written with wonderful descriptions of New Orleans, Catholic liturgy and the Catholic Churches of the 1940s and ’50s. It was amazing to me both how different from, and how similar to mine, were her experiences.
In the middle of my listening to her book, all of the hubbub about Rice leaving the Catholic Church AGAIN became the subject of much discussion both on talk shows and on the internet. Listening to her describe her complete devotion to Christ and the Catholic Church at the end of the book and then reading her comments online made me feel very sad for her. But more than anything else, it made me envious of her certitude. I don’t know that I’ve ever been as certain as she is of all four stances that she took; first as a devoted Catholic, then as a certain atheist, then as an even more devoted Catholic and finally (at least for now) certain that she can no longer be Continue reading » Faith and Doubt
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
— Oscar Wilde
When I was a kid in catechism class, I was taught that faith was a gift from God. You either got the gift or you didn’t. It was sort of like the taunt we all heard some version of when we were kids – “Where were you when the brains/good looks/talent/coordination were passed out?” If you were behind the door, you were out of luck.
If you were raised in a religious tradition, there was probably some point when you came face to face with doubt. For me, it was Philosophy 101 freshman year of college. It was in that class that I was exposed to Continue reading » Faith
I’m finding teachers in places I go and places I’ve been. What about you – where are your teachers appearing. And what are you ready to learn these days?? Share?
I guess I subscribe to the saying that when you are ready to learn a teacher will appear.
So there I was Sunday ruminating (during Church no less) that I used to be comfortably and securely an “I inside a We” and now must be a “me, myself and I” again – someone I’ve not been for forty-seven years – not since I first started dating my husband. (Yeah, looking back it was pretty much love at first sight – scary huh?) That’s not to say I felt subsumed by the partnership. No, it was more of a “we’ve got each other’s back” inner knowledge that sustained. We each were our own persons within our “we-us” and me, I’ve always been pretty darn independent and assertive. Or so those near and dear tell me. They tease that you don’t want to cross Ellie – no you don’t.
Continue reading » A Teacher Will Appear…
Control – Most of us like to think we have it. If you’ve been paying attention to the economy lately, you know just what an illusion control is. People who have worked hard their whole lives are in danger of losing their jobs, their savings, their retirement or all of the above. There is a deep feeling of anger in the general population. Why??? Because this latest downturn has affected all of us and we want to blame someone.
Continue reading » Let Go and Let God (or your higher power)
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