More revelations
Jun. 8th, 2019 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilyLearning About Me seems to have become a bit of a Thing...
On Thursday, I had my 'interview' with the Diocese to progress my application to become a Local Missional Leader for 'A Taste of God', my Tuesday lunchtime prayer and discussion group. One of the questions, inevitably, was about my 'faith journey'. I trolled out the story of randomly asking my mother if we could go to church on Sunday as we passed St Bride's (whatever in the universe prompted 7-year-old me to ask that?!) and how, other than a break in my teens, I've gone just about every Sunday since. And how my journey has been about learning how much of what I was taught as a child I can discard and still be 'Christian'.
Then it occurred to me, and I said, that I am actually picking a lot of this stuff back up again, re-examining and re-exploring things (at the moment, it's particularly the Resurrection) that I thought were long behind me.
THEN on reflecting on it afterwards, I realised I have also moved a long way from the intellectual approach I took when I was younger. One of the reasons I rejected a physical resurrection was because it made no sense intellectually. I had intellectual arguments against it. Now, I take a more contemplative, non-dualistic approach. So much is mystery, and that's OK. I don't have to explain stuff, understand it in my head - I just need to understand it in my heart. Or, at least, wrestle with it there!
I think this is what Marcus Borg meant by 'pre-critical naivete, critical thinking, post-critical naivete'.
I finished watching 'The Society' and I have Feelings about it. If you have Netflix, I heartily recommend watching it. So many twists that I never saw coming, all so believable. So many humorous moments in the midst of dark and questionable actions. So many moral dilemmas. What would YOU do?!
I started 'What We Do In The Shadows' and... This is funny? It was the kind of thing where I clearly saw the jokes but was not amused. Some of my colleagues find it amusing, and I had a serious case of FOMO. Lesson learned!
Oh, and Jessica Jones starts again on Friday!!!
Well, that's all for now. Today is going to be a day of washing - and I can't even use the washing line because it's pouring down outside. Sigh...
On Thursday, I had my 'interview' with the Diocese to progress my application to become a Local Missional Leader for 'A Taste of God', my Tuesday lunchtime prayer and discussion group. One of the questions, inevitably, was about my 'faith journey'. I trolled out the story of randomly asking my mother if we could go to church on Sunday as we passed St Bride's (whatever in the universe prompted 7-year-old me to ask that?!) and how, other than a break in my teens, I've gone just about every Sunday since. And how my journey has been about learning how much of what I was taught as a child I can discard and still be 'Christian'.
Then it occurred to me, and I said, that I am actually picking a lot of this stuff back up again, re-examining and re-exploring things (at the moment, it's particularly the Resurrection) that I thought were long behind me.
THEN on reflecting on it afterwards, I realised I have also moved a long way from the intellectual approach I took when I was younger. One of the reasons I rejected a physical resurrection was because it made no sense intellectually. I had intellectual arguments against it. Now, I take a more contemplative, non-dualistic approach. So much is mystery, and that's OK. I don't have to explain stuff, understand it in my head - I just need to understand it in my heart. Or, at least, wrestle with it there!
I think this is what Marcus Borg meant by 'pre-critical naivete, critical thinking, post-critical naivete'.
I finished watching 'The Society' and I have Feelings about it. If you have Netflix, I heartily recommend watching it. So many twists that I never saw coming, all so believable. So many humorous moments in the midst of dark and questionable actions. So many moral dilemmas. What would YOU do?!
I started 'What We Do In The Shadows' and... This is funny? It was the kind of thing where I clearly saw the jokes but was not amused. Some of my colleagues find it amusing, and I had a serious case of FOMO. Lesson learned!
Oh, and Jessica Jones starts again on Friday!!!
Well, that's all for now. Today is going to be a day of washing - and I can't even use the washing line because it's pouring down outside. Sigh...
