Is it raining where you live? I started this blog with the theory that it always seems to rain on Good Friday, and it always seems to be sunny on Easter. Today, it's 63 and sprinkling in downtown L.A. Hopefully, it's sunny on Sunday. I'm excited about going to church. I am about to join a new church in Pasadena called All Saints. It's really nice there. Lots of great ideas. The rector, Ed Bacon, has been on Oprah. But that wasn't the reason we joined this church. Ant and I have been "window shopping" for a church for awhile. We wanted some place that felt like home to us.
We both grew up, believing in the same thing...higher power and all that...but with very different organized religions. I stopped believing in organized religion around the time I was 16. My grandfather had passed away, and even though the church preacher mentioned it in the sermon that day...no one said anything to me afterwards! I felt like everyone went to church to parade their outfits and their children's accomplishments and not to listen to the message from God.
Recently, two of my best friends in L.A. were talking about just wanting to feel more spiritual, and I completely got it. We all have a mind. We all have a body. We also all have a spirit, and just like we take care of our mind (reading, doing crossword puzzles, stress relief) and our body (eating well, exercising, relieving stress as much as possible)...we seldom think about how to take care of our spirit. And I think we need that. Well, at least I do. Also...someday in the future...far, far away (in my mind)...we may want to have children. I'd like them to have a moral foundation. Of course, I think it's my responsibility, as a parent, to teach and give them that moral foundation. But we live in a very secular world that doesn't teach about the spirit. And so for one day out of the week...it would be nice for them to hear something that feeds that spirit. It truly does take a village, after all, to rear a child.
