Light and Lively
Posted by: Lex on: July 26, 2007
Boy! That last post was full of thoughts. I haven’t really given this issue that much thought the last couple of months.
A friend said to me the other day, “Lex, there is nothing better than going to service at 9am and being out by 10am.” I said, “Oh, YES there IS!!” And we both died laughing. Of course because in my mind, not going at all is even better. He was good about it though and then said that he wishes he could skip church without the guilt. I avoided stepping on my soapbox and rambling on about why he would feel guilt about that anyway and simply put it like this… I don’t feel guilty because I have made a choice. I’m not ‘not doing what I know I should be doing’. I have made a conscious decision not to attend church and there’s no guilt at all in me for that.
He’s one of the people that set me off on one of my previous rants on this blog, by the way. We hung out last weekend and it was great. He admitted that he needed to come to terms with the fact that he had me on a pedestal and that once he decided to let me down and allow me to be human, he could better handle where I am right now. That’s a friend, my friend! I have great ones.
Well, I don’t know that I’m any further along this journey than the last time I posted. I am sure that I don’t think I’ll be going back to church any time soon. That hasn’t shaken my faith in God, though and I think that’s awesome. You know, its summer and I spend so much more time outside now that I’m working out (checkout my fitness blog Fine Tuning) and feeling really close to God. I don’t think I have been able to articulate well how connected I feel to the Creator in nature. I’ll work on putting it into words. It’s my communion with him right now and that’s working for me.
I bid you peace!
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