Well, now, the title of this thread caught my eye and I thought, "Hmmmmm I guess that's me". I'm not a religious person, although I did grow up going to church and took my children to church, too. I quit going to church when our church built a big building with an indoor skating rink, basketball court, sauna and bowling alley and then didn't want the poor children in the community to play there because they might mess it up.
When that happened, Hubs and I started staying home of Sunday mornings and working in the garden or taking drives together or cooking breakfast and spending Sunday mornings in bed with coffee and the newspapers. After a while, we realized that we were really enjoying Sundays without pantyhose and shirts and ties and were enjoying the time together much more. We thought about visiting some smaller churches but didn't ever get around to it. We've been out of church and religion for 10 years now and are happeir than ever.
Over time, I've found out that the spiritual concepts of Jesus gets lost when people look for Him in church and want to build bigger and fancier buildings and collect more and more money for them leaving less money for doing other things, like serving the poor, for instance.
So, like others here, I've created my own spiritual life that I'm very comfortable with and it doesn't follow the rules. I pray and light candles and meditate. I plant by the signs and drum when there's a full moon. I recognize, too, that you can be a spiritual person without believing in God at all. Every person has to follow his/her own path and that's fine with me. And if you don't follow one, that's fine with me, too.
Aunt Bea
