The Coffee House - the UU Fellowship Thread (churches, experience) - Page 45

BrandonE · #**441** 09-30-2007, 01:31 PM

Just popping in, as I've been away for quite a long while. Work is great, but keeping me too busy to check in here regularly.

I am helping out with the senior high RE class this year, but I'm still feeling them out and I'm a long way from comfortable yet. Thankfully, the man who's been solely responsible for youth RE for a couple of years now is there. I think with a little time I'll be more comfortable.

Hope everyone's well.

powder21 · #**442** 10-06-2007, 10:08 PM

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Tea is a good drink, it is now beginning to rival coffee as tea shops spring up and the many varieties of the leaf are promoted. So tea's good!

I don't like hot coffee all that much. (mocha frappuccino and other cold coffee drinks are great). My congregation had some great home made Iced Tea at coffee hour my first visit, but they haven't done it since. I wish they would keep it up...I'm getting tired of drinking water at "caffeine" hour.

powder21 · #**443** 10-06-2007, 10:16 PM

A friend of mine sent this to to me in an e-mail reply and I just HAD to share with the rest of you:

Honey, most people are told what to believe, generation after generation, and have no real understanding of why they should believe, what it's for, and how to teach it to others, because they lack that understanding. Modern churches biggest fault is they do not want people learning on their own what their relationship with God is. Not all people are from families that give you an option to choose for yourself, to learn. You either believe what they have always believed, or your an unbeliever. Once these people can be approached without blame, but with compassion and understanding, and be taught that it is up to them what they want to believe in, even the choice to believe in nothing, than maybe the world will be the place we dream of. But you, even I, still hold resentments, and frustration, that it is not already that way, and the world we want can not come about until we leave that behind, and approach change with complete love in our hearts, complete faith, and complete patience, as Jesus did, as the Mary's did, as Gandhi did, as all leader of change have had to do.

We're working out our scheduling issues but she's been wanting to come to church with me. I really think she'd love UU.

lilithu · #**444** 10-06-2007, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by powder21

A friend of mine sent this to to me in an e-mail reply and I just HAD to share with the rest of you:

Honey, most people are told what to believe, generation after generation, and have no real understanding of why they should believe, what it's for, and how to teach it to others, because they lack that understanding. Modern churches biggest fault is they do not want people learning on their own what their relationship with God is. Not all people are from families that give you an option to choose for yourself, to learn. You either believe what they have always believed, or your an unbeliever. Once these people can be approached without blame, but with compassion and understanding, and be taught that it is up to them what they want to believe in, even the choice to believe in nothing, than maybe the world will be the place we dream of. But you, even I, still hold resentments, and frustration, that it is not already that way, and the world we want can not come about until we leave that behind, and approach change with complete love in our hearts, complete faith, and complete patience, as Jesus did, as the Mary's did, as Gandhi did, as all leader of change have had to do.

We're working out our scheduling issues but she's been wanting to come to church with me. I really think she'd love UU.

She sounds like a UU to me!

cityms · #**445** 10-07-2007, 06:49 PM

That quote, lilithu, originally posted by Powder 21, it rings so true. I have practised it with my son. I have salvaged that philosophy of "giving an option to choose for yourself, to learn" from the wreckage created by our past family generations insistences and in fact, pseudo-religious wars.
It is appalling to say today that I am still unable to be open and frank about my religious views with certain of the older relatives who tho not religious in a true sense themselves, take the most conservative view of their religious identity and confuse it with the same thing as family identity. In other words, if you are family you believe in our family religion. Ouch!

lilithu · #**446** 10-17-2007, 07:39 AM

Hi all, namaste.

For reasons having nothing to do with you lovely people, I don't expect I'll be on this forum much longer. It was great while it lasted. If that turns out to be the case, and if any of yall want to contact me sometime, you can do so via my UU website, wizdum.net (link also in my sig) or on my blog, Confessions of an Evangelical UU (I need to get that up and running again, but the comments links work.)

Always remember your divine spark and let it shine.

applewuud · #**447** 10-18-2007, 09:44 AM

Sorry to hear that. It is hard to keep up with things on the net when one is active in a church as well...it's OK to check in from time to time, I hope.

Are you going to reactivate your website, or are there other forums you're contributing to?

powder21 · #**448** 10-19-2007, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by lilithu

Hi all, namaste.

For reasons having nothing to do with you lovely people, I don't expect I'll be on this forum much longer. It was great while it lasted. If that turns out to be the case, and if any of yall want to contact me sometime, you can do so via my UU website, wizdum.net (link also in my sig) or on my blog, Confessions of an Evangelical UU (I need to get that up and running again, but the comments links work.)

Always remember your divine spark and let it shine.

No!!!!!!!!!! I know I haven't been here long, but I'll definitely miss you! Hope you come back! (Why might you be leaving if you don't mind me askin?)

Davidium · #**449** 10-19-2007, 08:46 PM

Hi Lillithu,

I have not felt guilty (I know, kinda Catholic of me) for my long absence from the UU section on RF, because I knew you were here providing a voice of our faith. Keep me in the loop as to where you are and what you are doing.

BTW, one of your friends from All Souls is now attending the church I am the ministerial intern at in Evanston, IL. She came up to me a few Sunday's ago, because she had heard "all about you (meaning me) from her friend "Lillithu" (She used your offline name, of course). I dont remember who it was, but she was quite happy to have made that connection. It reminds me of what a small denomination we are in such a small world.

Be safe, and fruitful!

Yours in Faith,

David

lilithu · #**450** 10-25-2007, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by applewuud

Sorry to hear that. It is hard to keep up with things on the net when one is active in a church as well...it's OK to check in from time to time, I hope.

Are you going to reactivate your website, or are there other forums you're contributing to?

I am trying to reactivate my website but would need help from other UUs to do so. There's just too much information for one person to keep up with. But I am monitoring it. For a while I wasn't even doing that.

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