***Future me Edit: I’ve changed this whole enterprise to “Beloved Presence” because the “church” part kept feeling weird. What I do is what I think Church is ‘supposed’ to be, but isn’t.***
I share a bit of my story about how I got to this point and what you can do to keep on this vague AF spiritual path. There are no clear directions - we're looking for the sign posts as we go.
I thought I was going to write a foundation post to celebrate the new website. Instead Creation asked, “Who am I?” and so now I’m writing about that. How can we make our lives happier and more true to our highest self?
Identity is important and the the duality of our separation as individual bodies is greatly over-rated. We have bodies that are beautiful wisdom tools. We hold our identity with the wholiness at the same time we hold our identity in a body. They are happening at the same time. We are one. Nature is kin. There is only loving inclusion.
Standing in our truth is a powerful place to be. We can accept and own our truth without feeling the need to defend or convince or provide proof. This is necessary in order to complete the circle of truth - to share our accepted truth with others. We need to share and others need to receive it.
Atiyyah shook me and I am strengthened by her truth.
Apparently, I have to reckon with the Christian colonization of my Celtic ancestors before I can walk with them into the future. This is the first of a series on Christianity and the the harm and gifts it’s given to my ancestors.
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Picking out the glass in the grass of the ground that I was raised in. So many false stories I made up to explain cruelty and abuse. I wish my parents had gone to therapy.
Christian beliefs have prevented me from believing in and sharing with the world my spiritual beliefs, gifts and ways of knowing. We need no permission or outside authority to communicate directly with Spirit. Our dead live on and continue and are waiting to communicate and have relationship with us from beyond the physical realm. We are in direct contact with all of the everything and can learn directly whenever we want.