I really need to read more of your stories. I love the liturgical sensibility you brought out here, and connecting to your thoughts on Episcopal worship. I resonate so much with the comfort of traditional chants and songs. They can seem repetitive, until you really need them. Then they are infinitely comforting. The old hymns are that way for me.
I've been considering becoming a Unitarian Universalist, because that is ever more where I am at theologically, but I just can't bear to part ways with the liturgy and the music.
I feel the same way about crowds.
Lovely, lovely story, and even more lovely with your thoughts included.
:) This one, Good Morning, Mother, and the Trailbreaker ficbit in the ten songs meme are the most blatantly spiritual of the stuff I've written.
Yes, many of the new church songs are wonderful, but sometimes there is nothing like a good, old fashioned hymn. Much as I do miss the liturgy, I think it's possible to find a happy in-between even in a church that doesn't have that tradition. The one I went to in college was non-denominational and so had no liturgy, but they read scripture during worship. Didn't talk about it or turn it into a sermon, just read it and let it stand for itself. And during Communion, the lights were turned down and you walked to the front to receive the elements. There was music and time for introspection and prayer. It wasn't quite the same, but it still helped fill that same space. My current church just is not filling those spaces at all, which is part of why I'm looking for a new one. XD It can be hard to find a church that satisfies you both theologically and emotionally.
oh, this one always brings tears and now this is just going to make it even more sorrowful. i felt for Ratchet, and deeply, but seeing how he can't deal with this right now just makes me need to cuddle him close and hug him.
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I've been considering becoming a Unitarian Universalist, because that is ever more where I am at theologically, but I just can't bear to part ways with the liturgy and the music.
I feel the same way about crowds.
Lovely, lovely story, and even more lovely with your thoughts included.
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Yes, many of the new church songs are wonderful, but sometimes there is nothing like a good, old fashioned hymn. Much as I do miss the liturgy, I think it's possible to find a happy in-between even in a church that doesn't have that tradition. The one I went to in college was non-denominational and so had no liturgy, but they read scripture during worship. Didn't talk about it or turn it into a sermon, just read it and let it stand for itself. And during Communion, the lights were turned down and you walked to the front to receive the elements. There was music and time for introspection and prayer. It wasn't quite the same, but it still helped fill that same space. My current church just is not filling those spaces at all, which is part of why I'm looking for a new one. XD It can be hard to find a church that satisfies you both theologically and emotionally.
Thank you. :) I'm glad.
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