Can I be a quiet reflective, ecumenical, non fundamentalist, non literal, open to all expressions of sexuality and love (except those which are coercive and non-consensual), pro-choice kind of Christian? Is it ok to believe that the Pope is fallible and that priests really are sexual beings. May I believe in women being priests? I love the holy in-dwelling Spirit (God/de) Which informs my every moment whenever i let it. Ah, the perilous joy of free will. Gotta love it!
Faith, to me, right now, is hilarious. Some important contexts, in which i understood and practiced faith, are no longer available to me. If i want to be a church-going Christian, i would have to be a) able to get out (hahahah, but seriously) b) be anti-gay, c) have a strong investment in patriarchy and, d) disconnected to reality. As the Jews were fragmented in the time of Jesus, so Christians are disunited and divisive today. It is an important time in the history and future of Faith.
I am trying to think of myself as Pope, looking out the massive ten foot window below to the piazza where only yesterday there were five-thousand directed by me to sit and stand and speak and sing and then leave. I am the Pope, Secundus Dei - Second to God herself. Does God actually speak to me or am i merely prescient. The answer is moot. It is what I believe that matters. I am the Pope. I think i will write an edict right now - ANYONE IN NEED = know that your utterances for mercy are being heard. Godde is love. I am going to cancel all other edicts and get my tea leaves read.
Basically, i guess that sums it up. I am a Christian. Probably.
2 comments:
Yes, yes, yes, to all of it! You sure *are* a Christ-ian. Your love of the sage Jesus sparked an evolution of my own about a decade ago, and I revere the man -- whether he actually existed or not -- for his example ... for what kind of human he chose to be.
Your point about free will, and the indwelling Spirit "Which informs my every moment *whenever i let it*", blows me away ... Yes, it's that choice we make to allow Spirit to move us ... It's pivotal ...
We live in exciting times ... with all the "new" gospels found since the Dead Sea Scrolls were unearthed, all the radical revelations that Wisdom is offering ...
Wouldn't it be something if Jesus showed up right here, right now, in 2011 ...
Pope Heather Ann! It has a ring to it ... Imagine!
"I am going to cancel all other edicts and get my tea leaves read" ... Is it time for an I Ching reading??
Love & miss you ... Be in touch xoxo
Jaliya
Thank you for your feedback, dear. Writing that piece was helpful in my on-going dialogue with the nature of my spirituality - an exercise we all undertake - but the universality of dissatisfaction and apathy also inspires me to look deeper and deeper. I know this is true for you also and your blog does a superb job at exploring and encouraging reflection on wise *relationship* the *manna* for life itself: relationship with Self, Others and Spirit.
blessing, miss you too.
bean
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