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I live by myself and am religious about getting up early even on weekends.
Everyother weekend I have my kids and they like to sleep late which drives me
nuts, because they are religious about sleeping late. And since I get up
early, I eat breakfast early..they sleep late and eat breakfast late..So,
when they're ready for breakfast I'm just about ready for lunch!
Jim
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| I am presently the only one in my household who is active in a church. My
wife considers me to be active in several churches.
I am presently the only one in my household who reads the Bible, and other
books and periodicals of a spiritual nature.
My father was active in a church a number of years ago, but he got burned
somewhere along the line. He left the church and never returned. My mother
is deceased. My brother has never felt drawn to anything religious.
My wife feels burned out from her heavy involvement in the church in the
past and is less than eager to engage the institutional church again.
My son finds worship boring. I'm worried about him because his best friend
at the moment is a fundamentalist and every so often I hear my son repeating
fundamentalist dogma.
Richard
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| Interesting question, Richard. I have only talked about this to a
few people ever before. I am nearly always the person with the most
spiritual interests, wherever I am. Part of the reason for that is
that I go to a Unitarian church. This is the only church I feel
comfortable in, yet there are very few people who are as interested
in things of the spirit as I am. I met another one recently, a
totally unexpected person, so I have hope now. I really enjoy
the UU church at the same time.
This new person and I both read the book "Care of the Soul," which
had been recommended by one of our ministers, and neither of us
liked it. This book constitutes a topic in itself, I realize. The
author, a former Catholic priest and psychologist, basicly knocks
psychotherapy throughout and does not give much advice on caring
for the soul. I don't think the two are exclusive; in fact, I think
they are necessary to each other. He kept saying "it's not what
happened to you when you were a child." But some things are, and
he had a terrible thing happen to him as a child (his parents sent
him away to seminary at about 12 years old), and I think he does
not realize the effect it had on him. The whole book strikes me
as an exercise in his personal denial. Why does the study of the
psyche have to be worthless for spiritual things to have any value?
Sorry if I ratholed this, but it did seem related.
Eileen
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