TheBanyanTree: why I get turned off, and how I turn back on

[Indiglow]

You're in Oregon?  For how long?  Come visit!!!!!!  Maybe we can get Monique & Andrew to make the trek and have a mini-gathering even.  Monique?
 
Jana
 
Jana

--- On Mon, 9/13/10, Theta Brentnall <tybrent at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Theta Brentnall <tybrent at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: TheBanyanTree: why I get turned off, and how I turn back on
To: "A comfortable place to meet other people and exchange your own *original* writings." <thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com>
Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 9:34 AM


I like that quote, Julie.  Yes, I am the one who considers myself a Zen Pagan Methodist, although animist works for me, too.  We got to Boardman, OR yesterday, and my church moment was standing on the edge of the Columbia River, almost a mile across here, and watching a glorious red-gold-purple sunset in a sky with no interruptions from horizon to horizon.  And after, a night sky with the Milky Way spilling across a field of brighter stars.  As our pastor says, that preaches, sister!

Theta

On 9/13/2010 7:33 AM, Indiglow wrote:
> I so agree with you, Julie!  I think it was another Spooner (Theta, was it you?) who long ago described herself as a Zen-Animist-Methodist, and that stuck in my mind as quite sensible.  For the most part, I'm content with the Methodist church which tends to focus on community and "do unto others" (stewardship) - and for the most part leaves the dogma alone.  But there are times when a flowing river or a good wild wind or a gurgling baby are all I need to feel connected to what I call God.
>   J
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> --- On Mon, 9/13/10, Julie Anna Teague<jateague at indiana.edu>  wrote:
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> I have gone to some church or other most of my life, albeit with
> years-long lapses thrown in here and there.  I suppose you'd say I have
> always been a spiritual-minded person, a truth seeker.  "Keep the
> company of those who seek the truth--run from those who have found it."
> So says Václav Havel, and I have to say I agree.