I am joyful in that I have many good friends and close family. Sometimes memorial services remind one of all one has as well as all one has lost. (Noreen was in her eighties & died of a sudden heart attack before she lost one lick of her sparkling intelligence and good humor.)
I am taking on a new challenge with a certain amount of trepidation.
I am going to teach Spirit In Practice this summer at my church. It's the first time in ages I've done any teaching, so I'm nervous about that. Also, I'm an atheist, and I'm sort of struggling with whether words like "spirit" or "ground of being" have meaning for me.
In the more mundane world, got a date on Sunday and looking forward to it!
Attended a funeral yesterday -- my grandmother's funeral -- and still don't know how I feel about it. Besides that, while I can sit through an Anglican service and don't mind giving the responses like 'hear our prayer' and 'amen', I'd rather not... Something about it rubbed me up the wrong way. Possibly because I knew most of the attendees were atheists, and my sister was very visibly annoyed about being expected to participate in such a Christian thing.
On the other hand, my nan was a Christian, albeit not a church attending one. It's what she would've wanted. So I should probably hush and accept that. But... it seems sort of sad to me, that the funeral was uncomfortable for most of those attending.
Hi! I guess this is an okay place to introduce myself? I'm here following a conversation yesterday with shoshanna_g; she thought I might be interested in this community. I'm not sure to what extent I'll end up wanting to / able to participate in online conversations, but I figured at least I'd check out the place and say hello.
I'm an official member of a brick-and-mortar UU community (I've been attending Sunday services fairly regularly for about 2 years and have been an actual member for round about one year). I remain a slightly uneasy, tentative member of the community; I've found a lot to love about it but for me it sometimes feels too, er, religious. So! Here I am, uneasy-but-working-with-it for now.
Had a great weekend. Absolutely lovely. Don't want it to end in fact.
But Thursday was hard. Had to help a friend who's cat died overnight, take the body to the humane society and because he gets motion sickness, he got sick just out the window of my car on the drive there. Kind of like a double-whammy. Poor fella. I feel sad for him.
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Date: 2011-06-23 12:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-23 02:44 am (UTC)I am going to teach Spirit In Practice this summer at my church. It's the first time in ages I've done any teaching, so I'm nervous about that. Also, I'm an atheist, and I'm sort of struggling with whether words like "spirit" or "ground of being" have meaning for me.
In the more mundane world, got a date on Sunday and looking forward to it!
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Date: 2011-06-23 09:09 am (UTC)On the other hand, my nan was a Christian, albeit not a church attending one. It's what she would've wanted. So I should probably hush and accept that. But... it seems sort of sad to me, that the funeral was uncomfortable for most of those attending.
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Date: 2011-06-27 01:31 am (UTC)I'm an official member of a brick-and-mortar UU community (I've been attending Sunday services fairly regularly for about 2 years and have been an actual member for round about one year). I remain a slightly uneasy, tentative member of the community; I've found a lot to love about it but for me it sometimes feels too, er, religious. So! Here I am, uneasy-but-working-with-it for now.
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Date: 2011-06-27 02:50 am (UTC)Had a great weekend. Absolutely lovely. Don't want it to end in fact.
But Thursday was hard. Had to help a friend who's cat died overnight, take the body to the humane society and because he gets motion sickness, he got sick just out the window of my car on the drive there. Kind of like a double-whammy. Poor fella. I feel sad for him.