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Going to Church Orientation

  • Apr. 23rd, 2008 at 10:23 PM
thankfulness, grace, happiness, joy
Something that has been on my personal to-do list. I've been moving so much the past few years and after a problem that I should NOT have experienced with one of the parish staff at a catholic church in Wheaton, IL I unofficially left the catholic church in 2005.

Anyways, I've been telling myself I'm going to look into going back to church. Although I was catholic I am going to look into a non-denominational christian church community where people are closer to each other. I liked the catholic rituals but I felt alientaed in the wheaton church because I was so young and everybody else was older and had families and didn't talk to me. They didn't even have a singles group. I got involved and taught a sunday school class but still felt unwelcome. The problem referred to above is what really made me leave the church.

Regarding the churh I'll be visiting called "Common Ground", I have heard from multiple people that this church community has a good representation of a young adult community and offers smaller group orientated worship.

I'm excited to be going to an orientation session this Friday and Saturday. I hope to renew my worship and religious study and meet good people.
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May. 23rd, 2007

  • 9:57 PM
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"It all begins for us at birth. We are thrust from the womb onto the carousel of life, carried away in a blur of activities from childhood to adulthood and then to old age. Each of us have our dreams, our relationships and we go to school; we work and play, day after day, week after week, year after year. Life is certainly busy. And yet we tend not to think about the fact of our inevitable death. It doesn't seem to make any sense that we will no longer exist as we know it. The fact is we will die and there is no way to avoid it. Like the child being born, we have no choice but to yield ourselves to the unknown. Like the seventy billion who have already passed this way through life, we will join their ranks at the rate of 130,000 a day. And in that same day, 400,000 new lives will be born. The cycle of life and death continues at an ever-increasing pace. The fear of death has given rise to a host of speculations about an afterlife. Religions, philosophies and cults have multiplied over the millennia, all trying to answer our need for comfort about this seemingly absurd fate that awaits each of us. And now science has turned its gaze toward the matter of death."

-Norman Van Rooy (left), the producer of the NDE documentary Shadows: Perceptions of Near-Death Experiencers
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An Irish Blessing for you

  • Mar. 13th, 2007 at 11:19 PM
sweet as candy
An Irish Blessing

May the Blessing of Light be upon you
Light on the outside, light on the inside.

With God's sunlight shining on you,
May your heart glow with warmth,
like a turf fire that welcomes friends and strangers alike.

May the Light of the Lord shine from your eyes,
Like a candle in the window,
Welcoming the weary traveler.

May the blessing of God's soft rain be on you,
Falling gently on your head
Refreshing your soul with the sweetness of little flowers newly blooming

May the strength of the winds of heaven bless you
Carrying the rain to wash your spirit clean
Sparkling after in the sunlight.

May the blessing of God's earth be on you
And as you walk the roads
May you always have a kind word for those you meet.

May you understand the strength and power of God in a
thunderstorm and winter
and the quiet beauty of creation
and the calm of a summer sunset

And may you come to realize
that insignificant as you may seem in this great universe
you ARE an important part of God's plan.

May he watch over you
and keep you safe from harm.
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