Zeroa
Dances With Mice
Hello!
I am brand new here, having accidentally discovered this forum via Google while looking for information on Jainism today. This seems like the sort of place where I'd enjoy spending some time, since I am interested in religion in general, and also am a bit of a seeker of sorts.
I usually tell people that I am "between religions" if I feel safe with them, or that I'm Roman Catholic if I know it is going to start an argument that I don't want to get into.
I'm not really Catholic, though I did receive first communion in the Catholic Church. I was baptized in a Methodist church and never made it to Confirmation before my parents had yet another falling out on religion. I am comfortable with the Mass, though, and I've gone to Mass voluntarily at times during my adult life, so I figure saying I am Catholic is only a small fib that usually satisfies the questions of both the merely curious and those who have their own agenda.
I've been all over the religious map, from Christianity to Wicca to Islam and beyond. I am a panentheist and maybe a part-time animist. But I am less concerned of late with discovering any kind of capital-T Truth and more interested in finding a practice I can commit to for a long time and a community I want to be a part of.
Outside of my general and personal interest in religion, I'm a married, middle-aged mom of 6, with my oldest child having turned 21 last month and my youngest having turned 5 last month as well. This actually does figure into my religious search though-- I really wish I had brought my kids up in some kind of faith, even if they were going to reject it later... And my husband has no interest in spiritual matters. He has his own beliefs but doesn't feel the need to have an associated practice, while I feel that need acutely.
So... yeah. More than you ever wanted to know, no doubt.
I am brand new here, having accidentally discovered this forum via Google while looking for information on Jainism today. This seems like the sort of place where I'd enjoy spending some time, since I am interested in religion in general, and also am a bit of a seeker of sorts.
I usually tell people that I am "between religions" if I feel safe with them, or that I'm Roman Catholic if I know it is going to start an argument that I don't want to get into.
I'm not really Catholic, though I did receive first communion in the Catholic Church. I was baptized in a Methodist church and never made it to Confirmation before my parents had yet another falling out on religion. I am comfortable with the Mass, though, and I've gone to Mass voluntarily at times during my adult life, so I figure saying I am Catholic is only a small fib that usually satisfies the questions of both the merely curious and those who have their own agenda.
I've been all over the religious map, from Christianity to Wicca to Islam and beyond. I am a panentheist and maybe a part-time animist. But I am less concerned of late with discovering any kind of capital-T Truth and more interested in finding a practice I can commit to for a long time and a community I want to be a part of.
Outside of my general and personal interest in religion, I'm a married, middle-aged mom of 6, with my oldest child having turned 21 last month and my youngest having turned 5 last month as well. This actually does figure into my religious search though-- I really wish I had brought my kids up in some kind of faith, even if they were going to reject it later... And my husband has no interest in spiritual matters. He has his own beliefs but doesn't feel the need to have an associated practice, while I feel that need acutely.
So... yeah. More than you ever wanted to know, no doubt.
