Growing desire to serve people. Feel like I need to move churches in the near future for the sake of more personal"discipline." Yet to convince the wife though.― H.P, Saturday, April 27, 2024 8:54 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― H.P, Saturday, April 27, 2024 8:54 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
something you could elaborate on? as a lapsed catholic i've realized as much as i'll try... escaping some higher being may be a timeless challenge.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 25 May 2024 00:12 (four months ago) link
That challenge? I just decided to give in. It's just much easier (YMMV). Aesthetically, life is richer for it imo. Prayer, service, liturgy, confession, tradition: I find them to all be life-giving. Understand that's not the case for all... it's a matter of personal conviction. Yeah you gotta put up with some nonsense every now and then, but you've got to put up with nonsense wherever you land in life, it's just part of living is it not?
At the root of it all, it's philosophical conviction (unshaken since childhood!) coupled with family influence, cemented by positive lived experience
― H.P, Saturday, 25 May 2024 00:31 (four months ago) link
^
― calstars, Saturday, 25 May 2024 00:37 (four months ago) link
Re: moving churches. I'm a prot, was born prot, raised prot, but I'm disillusioned by prot theology and practice. Currently getting paid by the Catholic church to play piano for their liturgy once a month and.... yeah it's a long convo, but the orthodox Church and the Catholic church speak to me. Connection (however strenuous) to the apostles and 2000 years of church history + a concrete, spiritual practice to participate in daily? I want to pray the Heyschasm. I want to be part of a church calendar with its unified daily readings and remembrance of saints long gone. I want to have institutionalised confession. I want Lauds, Sext and Vespers.
As said, it's a long convo! Forgive me overshare
― H.P, Saturday, 25 May 2024 00:39 (four months ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, 25 May 2024 00:42 (four months ago) link
I have found a church community where I think I belong, but I am still discerning where I belong within that church community.
I spend a lot of time lately helping out with childcare, and it doesn't always fill my cup. A couple of weeks ago, I missed an excellent guest sermon on the matter of gender, because I was downstairs minding the little ones -- it almost felt like God's idea of a joke!
But last week, at our covenant ceremony to welcome new folks into our congregation, I heard a mom with two under-5s share her heartfelt gratitude for the way that our church has embraced her family, and that restored me. It's important for me to remember that the God I love is bigger than me, and serving others is the only path that consistently brings me nearer.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Saturday, 25 May 2024 01:47 (four months ago) link
wow that’s excellent
― calstars, Saturday, 25 May 2024 01:50 (four months ago) link
xp (I didn't even really miss the sermon, because like all of em it was recorded and posted online. But I missed getting to sing, wahh!)
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Saturday, 25 May 2024 01:53 (four months ago) link
Looks like a wonderful church snowy.
― H.P, Saturday, 25 May 2024 02:00 (four months ago) link
To the extent possible I try to be or at least aspire to be a spiritual presence at the bar
― calstars, Sunday, 26 May 2024 23:42 (four months ago) link
lol whatever
― calstars, Monday, 27 May 2024 00:00 (four months ago) link
Secular Buddhist who applies chaos magick principles in daily living
― beamish13, Monday, 27 May 2024 03:31 (four months ago) link
Example?
― calstars, Monday, 27 May 2024 03:52 (four months ago) link
The ideal of “living a life of service” resonates with me but I am far away from it
― calstars, Thursday, 20 June 2024 03:39 (three months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FvJhHnm.png
― calstars, Saturday, 22 June 2024 01:29 (three months ago) link
Is meditation just prayer without God?
― calstars, Friday, 5 July 2024 23:51 (two months ago) link
No, meditation is inward, not outward. You focus on the tangible
― beamish13, Saturday, 6 July 2024 00:29 (two months ago) link
There are types of meditation like loving kindness where you direct love towards other people, and in some traditions you wish for good things for them (without expectation.) Similar.
― default damager (lukas), Saturday, 6 July 2024 01:28 (two months ago) link
Had an hour long conversation with my wife about God. “in a car with you for the next two hours” vibe
― calstars, Sunday, 7 July 2024 17:57 (two months ago) link
lol
― twisted flight map starer (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 7 July 2024 18:04 (two months ago) link
There's Buddhist tonglen meditation where you breathe in the pain and suffering of others and breathe out the good things you wish for them. Pema Chodron (in particular) has written and spoken about it a lot. I don't meditate so this is really not my wheelhouse, of coursehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x95ltQP8qQ
― twisted flight map starer (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 7 July 2024 18:07 (two months ago) link