MY NEVER ENDING STORY

Please forgive me for not sharing my journals with others for the last month. My quest with you has been really personal and not something I felt called to share. In some respects I feel like Atreyu in The Never Ending Story, I have been blessed with the opportunity to look in the mirror of truths and face things about myself that I would like to pretend do not exist, but they do. I have had to press through my fears and do things that required me to call on my courage. I have had to face the nothing in my life and destroy it.  

Being on my own personal quest has not always been easy, albeit necessary for this time in my life. In the process, however, I have come to have a deeper reverence and respect for you as well as for myself. While I know you always see me for I am, there have been moments during this phase of my journey where I have had to be intentional about allowing you to see me in my most vulnerable. I know you see them anyway, but it feels different for me when I intentionally present myself to you in that state.

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find wholeness and find yourself

It's Sharing Time!

It's Sharing Time! Your Favorite Movie  http://inspiritual.biz/spiritual-discussion/2017/1/30/your-favorite-movie

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Are you ready for what you will discover?

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Do you even know when you are being led on a quest?

LIVE YOUR QUEST

Years ago, I was challenged to read a book I was not quite ready for by John Shelby Spong, Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile. In it he reflects on his quest for a new way of living his faith, which for him meant that he lived his Christianity in exile from the traditional church.  He wrote,

The only thing I know to do in this moment of Christian history is to enter this exile, to feel its anxiety and discomfort, but to continue to be a believer. That is now my self-definition. I am a believer who increasingly lives in exile from the traditional way in which Christianity has heretofore been proclaimed. 'A believer in exile' is a new status in religious circles, but I am convinced that countless numbers of people who either still inhabit religious institutions or who once did will resonate with that designation."

Sometimes our quest is for a space in which we can believe what we believe without having to conform to the doctrines of a religion or movement. I can remember when I engaged on that quest. It is, in part, what led to the creation of Inspiritual. I began to realize there were others who were believers in a diversity of faith traditions who, like Spong, felt as if they were believers in exile.

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A quest is a question, the journey is the answer

Song of the Week

This week's song of the week challenges us to remember we have the power to defy gravity. We can fly where the Divine is challenging us to soar https://youtu.be/MslDnwerQRA

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Stay humble and ask questions

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Ask to learn or don't ask

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Your questing cannot end if it never begins.

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Listen to everything with a maybe, and let Spirit guide you to the answers.

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Part of the quest is owning what you do not know. None of us know it all.

WALKING THE LABYRINTH

So often, when I hear people talk about going on a quest, they talk about going to remote places or off into the wilderness. However, one can stay in one’s own backyard or neighborhood and engage on a time of questing. Although I am no longer able to “walk” the labyrinth, I do finger labyrinths and find other ways of engaging in “walking” time with the Divine.

For many walking the labyrinth is a time of prayer. With each step one takes on the labyrinth one is both walking with and towards a deeper relationship with their Higher Power. Just as there is no one place to go to engage in a quest, there is no one way to walk the labyrinth. Some people I know have a prayer they speak softly or silently as they walk the path. Others have walked with a question and allowing each step to open themselves up to hearing the answer to their question or some sort of insight into the direction they should be going. There is no right way to walk the labyrinth and there is no right way to experience it. We are never the same person twice, so even when though you may walk the same labyrinth every week, that experience will never be the same as you are not the same.

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Questioning will create a path with no regrets

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It is not about the answer, but having the courage to question and what you learn in the process

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What things in your life do you need to question?

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How subversive are you ?

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is your why powerful enough to move you through the hows?

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Embrace the journey so you can reach the destination