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Thank you. With all the goings-on here in the Religion/Spirituality section, I want to tread lightly, but still explore my feelings honestly.  I couldn't honestly say that I have found happiness and completeness, but peace I have found.  A place to check my baggage, blogit seems a good forum for exploration and exchange of ideas.  I'm glad to you like reading.  That's encouraging. I'll do likewise.

posted by Blanche. on October 18, 2004 at 5:02 PM | link to this | reply

Thank you. With all the goings-on here in the Religion/Spirituality section, I want to tread lightly, but still explore my feelings honestly.  I couldn't honestly say that I have found happiness and completeness, but peace I have found.  A place to check my baggage, blogit seems a good forum for exploration and exchange of ideas.  I'm glad to you like reading.  That's encouraging. I'll do likewise.

posted by Blanche. on October 18, 2004 at 5:02 PM | link to this | reply

Absolutely not!

You didn't offend me at all.  I'm so sorry if I gave you that impression.  That one commenter who said it might not be a religion made me want to explain it a little better, that's all.

I was really interested in your spiritual journey, because in some ways you sound like me.  That's what caught my attention.  It is a very well-written, thoughtful post that I felt took courage to write.  It was nice to read that your journey had led you to happiness and a completeness.  It seems rare to find someone who can describe feelings about faith and religion without coming across as a fanatic, and you did that quite well.

I like your writing a lot and plan to read a lot more.  It's so great that I "discovered" you.  With so many writers on Blogit, there's always the feeling that one is missing out on someone who's great to read.  Thanks for reading and commenting. 

posted by Witchflower on October 18, 2004 at 4:48 PM | link to this | reply

Witchflower,

This is great! It raises all kinds of interesting thoughts about the last hundred years.

In response to your comment on my soul-searching post on religion, I think that maybe my cut-and-dried narrative/testimonial didn't really express a lot of the emotion that I was going through at the time.  At that time, I wasn't even really capable of discussing doctrine or denominations, and I certainly mean no disrespect to Lutherans.  I visited a Lutheran church near my apartment, my mother became a Lutheran later in life (although she has since dropped out, probably more for social reasons), and a friend of mine who was raised Lutheran recommended it. 

 Possibly, my interpretation of a lack of passion or some connection, had more to do with my emotional state at the time.  Church of Christ for whatever reason, has just offered me some emotional connection.  I'm also studying the Bible more on my own as I can grasp it, than from a doctrinal standpoint.   I hope I didn't offend. 

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posted by theinnkeepersdaughter on October 16, 2004 at 11:10 AM | link to this | reply