Friday, October 17, 2014

A Precarious Balance

Sacred music plays, and I am struck with this resonating inside me. I am a Christian. I love the sacred. It’s been too big a part of me for too long to throw away.

What I have to do is I have to find the place where what I have believed, or the culture of the religion I have been within, has been destructive to me and pull that part out.

The moment I say, “I am a Christian” the surety I have found in myself in the last two weeks begins to weaken. For, on a fundamental level, what I have done is shut down access to my interior--to my heart, to my soul—from religion. 

My self-conversation has been more positive. More sure. More strong. More action oriented. Less self abusing, degrading, and damaging.

Any openness to this idea, “I am a Christian” brings the flood of insecurity back.

I can’t have it. Won’t have it.

Where is the balance? Is there a the definition that brings peace and strength?

My inclination is to stay in this place, to continue, with "I am done with it." I will establish the patterns and habits within this new paradigm. Then deal with this question, or perhaps it will integrate organically and settle itself.

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