One More Thing

I just returned home from a spiritual group I attend each week. While the members are all Jewish, everyone bring his or her own spiritual beliefs to the proverbial table. One of our members has experienced amazing things while engaged in Native American ritual, and he believes that no matter how one connects with a higher power, it's all good as long as the path is centered on doing the right thing. Comforted by his words, I shared tonight about my own spiritual conundrum, and received some extremely helpful feedback. Maybe that message I received about not being able to follow both of my spiritual callings wasn't so much about having to abandon anything as it was about abandoning my old ideas about what spirituality means. For sure, if I'm reading Orthodox material, I'm going to be reading about more absolute ideas. Tonight, listening to one person talk about how she attends drumming circles and another talk about Native American spirituality, and someone else speak about connecting to spirit through rituals that have to do with connecting with the earth's energy, I came to understand that I'm not as alone as I thought I was. I feel much better tonight.

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