I've grown a LOT over the past few years - and especially this past year, 2022.
Over the course of the last 6 months or so a new subject matter slowly started becoming more and more prominent.
The subject?
Religion and Spirituality
I'm learning a lot about religion - or rather, what religion is not.
I knew this day would come. A day in which I'd learn that the traditions and routines I grew up with were really just that - Made by men and not by God.
Or, should I say, put in place with the actionable intentions of men rather than the intentions of God. Or something like that . . .
Anywho, it's cool that as I am coming to find and understand how much of religion, the church - Catholicism, specifically - is rules created to restrict and control others, I'm still not completely turned off by the whole idea.
I know there are some people that are very quick to dismiss the entire concept of organized religion. And I think that's okay, because, to quote the Bible: "In the beginning . . . "
. . . there was no religion.
There was only love.
I'm happy to find that while I feel less compelled to follow organized religion, I'm not turned off by it.
I can see that there are fundamentally flawed rituals and ways of thinking in all religions. But there are also positive aspects and pieces of true messages from God* [*insert your name for a higher power here] that also exist, interwoven within the human-created.
And that to me is an uplifting thought.
That, while not all ideas, practices, and organized religion will benefit followers or help them to fully become connected with God*, they do provide hope and basic teachings that people can hang on to. They do provide a sense of community. And perhaps this is a way to tap back into the sense of One Tribe.
Me and my wants.
Me and my passions.
Me and my love.
You.
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