As I read this I kept remembering of a quote from Thomas Merton that I've come across over and over. It's something like, the glory of God is the human fully realized. I've taken it to mean that the most sacred thing, the most worshipful thing if to be fully yourself, and not what someone else is trying to make you become.
Part 3 of this resonates a lot with me also. Of course, I'm loving your writing. I've been thinking over the past few months, off and on, truth be told I try not to think about it too much... but I think how I am hiding parts of myself. A lot of that is specifically from some of my immediate family, parents and also some other family who are in more conservative forms of Christianity still. Being thousands of miles away from family does make it easier but even though I'm so far I think I've realized that sometimes I still hold back because in the back of my mine there's "Oh what would mom think" and even though I've moved past wanting to please her, I still dont' really want to hear all the drama haha. But it's still something I need to work on.
Thank you for giving me so much to think about.
I haven't forgotten about what I mentioned before, wanting to come up with alternative forms of liturgy, just haven't had time to get into tinkering with that. Maybe sometime we could have another chat and bounce around ideas about it?
As I read this I kept remembering of a quote from Thomas Merton that I've come across over and over. It's something like, the glory of God is the human fully realized. I've taken it to mean that the most sacred thing, the most worshipful thing if to be fully yourself, and not what someone else is trying to make you become.
Part 3 of this resonates a lot with me also. Of course, I'm loving your writing. I've been thinking over the past few months, off and on, truth be told I try not to think about it too much... but I think how I am hiding parts of myself. A lot of that is specifically from some of my immediate family, parents and also some other family who are in more conservative forms of Christianity still. Being thousands of miles away from family does make it easier but even though I'm so far I think I've realized that sometimes I still hold back because in the back of my mine there's "Oh what would mom think" and even though I've moved past wanting to please her, I still dont' really want to hear all the drama haha. But it's still something I need to work on.
Thank you for giving me so much to think about.
I haven't forgotten about what I mentioned before, wanting to come up with alternative forms of liturgy, just haven't had time to get into tinkering with that. Maybe sometime we could have another chat and bounce around ideas about it?