Why I Went Back

[poliphilo]

I didn't go back to church for God. Or not exactly. I went back for the people.

God... people....maybe it comes to much the same thing. Anyway, the fact is I didn't have enough people in my life .

People are God in his/her most challenging manifestation.

I'd been limiting my contact with people after the Wicca experience. That hadn't ended well- and along the way there had been lots of hurt- given and received.

I don't apologize for sitting in my cave for a while. It was the right thing to do at the time.

But this is the right thing to do now.

Comments

[shullie.livejournal.com]

I miss 'community' I thionk..in that we did lots of family things together when I was in church... but I found out that they 'love' offered was not unconditional, as neither was 'their' god.

I am not a Wiccian and I don't have much to do with many Wiccians... i would think that the same petty power politics take place there as in Christian churches.

I never did that a problem with Jesus, just those who follow him, as I said before I seemed to be reading a different book to most of the other ppl in the church.

when push came to shove, and my life was in pieces, the ppl who came to help me up, who fed me, clothed me and gave me shelter (literaly) and who listened, who offered a shoulder to cry on were not the Xn's or the church who I had spent the last 15 years with, but the ppl they believe would be damned...etc.

the pagans, the witches, the deviants, the homosexuals, the non belivers, etc...

I saw more of Godde in those who offered me their hand and asked for nothing back, than I ever did in those who professed the loudest that there was only onw way...

gosh I do sound bitter...lol...am I am not really. I think its more that I see more and more that Godde is far more than the narrow path that many of the Xns I know(knew) believe and sad that they can't see the beauty of it all.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. I wouldn't want to be knocking around with evangelicals either. But St. Paul's is a mainstream Anglican church (no hellfire preaching, no puritanism, no "personal Jesus"), the people are a friendly bunch- and if there's any bigotry around I haven't stumbled across it yet.