tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647562459433740241.post7857762497586643253..comments2023-08-23T08:27:08.039-04:00Comments on UU A Way Of Life: "Now you're talking crazy. Is this something religious?David G. Markhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336565533124142690noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647562459433740241.post-60075663820582754222014-07-07T14:14:53.299-04:002014-07-07T14:14:53.299-04:00It is interesting in our post modern world how we ...It is interesting in our post modern world how we distrust intuitive and what some might call "spiritual" experiences. These experiences are often unwanted, unsolicited, and embarrassing. When people are aware of them, they usually don't want to talk about them for fear that the other will think them mentally ill.<br /><br />Some people have rich interior spiritual lives but unless they are "churched" they do not have a vocabulary to describe their experiences. Not only don't they have a vocabulary, but these experiences are intimate and not something that are shared lightly, frivolously, superficially with others. These experiences are akin to the "sacred" and as such are not the substance of pedestrian, secular conversation. There must be a space created for the safe expression and description of these experiences. Even to her best friend of over 20 years, Dovey, Dellarobia, even though perplexed, denies her experience as "religious" although she would not admit to being crazy either and she doesn't appear to be.<br /><br />In our secular age to experience the mysterious, and to have awe engendered in us, is unusual. We have become a crass and cynical culture very used to irony and sarcasm. God is easily mocked and those God speaks to fear being mocked right along with God as well. Perhaps this is why we have such a hard time facing up to and acknowledging what we are doing to our own planet. We have become hardened, cynical, and feel we deserve it to die and for our species to go instinct.<br /><br />Only faith can save us now. Faith in our own goodness, beauty, and Love of which we are an expression if we would but realize it and conduct ourselves accordingly.Kevin Andersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647562459433740241.post-65536571209765258502014-07-07T10:36:39.423-04:002014-07-07T10:36:39.423-04:00Thank you David for your wonderful essay. Repent i...Thank you David for your wonderful essay. Repent indeed or we will perish.Don Bakernoreply@blogger.com