About Me

- Surama Amen
- Washington, DC, District of Columbia, United States
- Honest to goodness, Life! Let's be honest for a change. With ourselves, with each other and with the world.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
How do you break up without breaking up? 0522090
I know this sounds like an article about romantic relationships. Even a bro-mance or girlfriend-girlfriend thing. But what I'm really talking about is how do you live outside of religious rules and still get along with the people you love. How do you break up with her (the system) and still be friendly. I mean, You enjoy the conversation, the energy, the relationship in general. You just don't want to be intimate anymore. I want more out of life and I am bravely moving forward to say to the world "I want to be a contribution." I want to help people live a happy life. I know that people are fickle and that they change their minds. They are allowed to just like I am. But I want to teach them some tools so that they can do those changes and always move toward what makes them happiest. As most of us know, any systematic approach to understanding God has some rules and stipulations. Thats the only way to get a group going. You've gotta have some rules. The only problem with that, every one has to agree to someone's idea of what is right. Now don't get me wrong. For society to function there must be somethings we agree on. Not to mention that the laws of the universe prevail over even those things we agree on. But, at some point, I've started to diverge in my thinking. I don't see things the way I used to and it is different to people who've known me for the last 8-9 years. I went through this before. When I moved from church to church until I finally landed in the living room of a wonderful woman Pastor Shirley Chambers who finally revealed to me that there really isn't a devil in the way that we think of it. ( I love you Pastor Chambers!!!) In her own clever way she even preached this at churches. It was beautiful. But my releasing the traditional view of Christianity and making my relationship with God more personal was a mile stone. I am now having that milestone again with non-traditional Traditional African religion. I really love the premise the foundation the education that I received but I the confinement is not what I choose for the next phase of my journey. I don't want it to seem like I don't want to be responsible but I do want to be free. And as I've learned, things have no value but what we assign to them so my freedom out weighs my desire to satisfy others. I choose to help others. I choose to be receptive to God and the most elegant way to do this. I am capable and willing and equipped. The information I need it here for me. I always have what I need. I meet the people that I need to meet. My resources are limitless. I am free. I choose to interact with God in away that all that I need it given to me. Loving God feels good.
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