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What values of yours have remained the same?

Posted on Aug 18th, 2008 by Molly Brogan : writer Molly Brogan
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for August 18, 2008:

Some of my earliest memories are of a Catholic church that was two doors down from my house.  Between the ages of 3-7, I would walk down to that church and spend hours sitting in the pews, feeling my God.  I, to this day, access that part of me, and it feels the same.
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Shameslaya : Tantrika Kosmocentria
about 8 hours later
Shameslaya said

I am touched by this…the catholic church gets a lot of bad press imo….and I'm glad the environment it provided for you was positive.

Terry patten once said that religion begins with an intellectual, received understanding of one's place in the scheme of things…and out of that understanding comes a yearning….and out of that yearning comes an opening….maybe you relate to this.

warmly, Jon x

Molly Brogan : writer
about 22 hours later
Molly Brogan said

Thanks for your comment, Jon.  Looking at the Patten statement, I would say that the reverse happened to me at that tender young age, I felt the opening, then yearning, then grounding.  When I take myself back there, I can't say that I had the intellectual understanding, but was probably too young.  Since then, it was the feeling that always led me back to the value.  I have been to that church recently, and will tell you that the feeling it evokes for me is still in tact.  The church does seem to intensify it, with its sounds and smells and wonderful sights.  It is an unnamed value that is with me always, probably best described as God, although I can't say that I am at all religious.

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