So, this is my credo statement for my affirmation. Tell me what you think! Comments? Suggestions? Edits?
Note: This is just my belief. Not a comment on anyone else's. I have no problem with anybody's religion, believe what you want and be happy.
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I’ve never been exactly what you would call a religious person. I was raised half Jewish and half Christian; but neither of my parents pushed either. I was free to choose what I wanted at an early age. I never really did get around to the choosing part. I had always loved the sparkle of Christmas lights; the joy of rummaging through an Easter basket, the beauty of stained glass in a church. On the other end of the spectrum, I loved sitting in a welcoming synagogue with my grandfather, lighting a menorah, and dancing and singing the traditional Jewish songs every holiday.
Now that I’m a little older, I’ve found that it was never the praying, repenting, reciting part of religion that attracted me. It was the spiritual part- the feelings of joy, the warmth of a candle, the swelling lift of a song. That, today, is what I find my spirituality in.
In school, I was exposed to two sides: my peers, mostly religious Catholics, who wore little gold crosses and told me not to ask questions and to believe in the Bible. Then there were a few select others who told me that they didn’t believe in anything. This was a new idea to me. I had always thought, in a closed-minded way, that everyone had a God of some sort. This new idea possessed me; and I found myself connecting with it. Why did you need a God? Why would you believe in something you had no proof existed? Why would your bow down in worship to a being that killed as it blessed, and shunned everything different? I found that I, personally, didn’t.
To a degree, I understood some people’s undying faith in a deity. It was something that was always there, something all powerful that they could ask for guidance from. But I couldn’t accept a defined, exclusive Christian God any more than I could accept a Jewish God the Destroyer.
No; I didn’t believe in those things. So what do I believe in? What is my spiritual path? I think that I’m still finding that out every day. I don’t have a defined deity, no. But I believe that there are things that are divine: the crackle of energy- almost tangible- before performing onstage; the electricity in the air before a storm; the smell of parchment in a new notebook. And those are the things that I draw my spirituality from. I don’t pray to a God. I write; putting my prayers into stories. I don’t preach the Bible or Torah. I sing; I preach love or hope through the lyrics. That is my spirituality- it is not a defined, strict religion. Nor is my spirituality an unmoving rock in my life. To me, my spirituality is like a dream- intangible, sweet, and it doesn’t always make sense. Like a dream; I have awakenings, and then I fall back asleep and dream anew. And, like my dreams, my spirituality is mine specifically. I will not try to make others see it clearly or force them to it. I will expect them to be different in their beliefs; unique. It is what makes us human. Our spirituality may draw from different sources, and we might disagree often- but in the end, we all dream.
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