The End of the Experiment

Well.

A week spent of “letting Go, and Letting God”. Did I learn anything? Perhaps. I think the answer is probably something lame like “the middle way”. Not that there’s anything the matter with the middle way. I think though an important lesson has been (re)learnt. As is so often with these experiments, we notice that there is room for both. That spending too much time on one side or the other is bad.

And there it is, the hark back to the first year spirituality module. Not that I remember very much from it, apart from the description of an aproach to spirituality. That Desire for God is somewhere between thinking and feeling, between reason and experience. I think that I had been guilty in the past of concentrating too much on the reasons why, rather than just experiencing things, and worrying about it afterwoulds. Saying that, I found it difficult to not want to think over things, to not digest the reasons that I feel the way I do. I think that’s just me.

What this has highlighted for me is that perhaps there are times for things. There are times, particularly during worship, where we should try to more to let go, and to question less. I need to be more ready to engage in worship that is outside my comfort zone, incase I miss something that raises me closer to God, or more importantly, something that I can share with a congregation that will make them get closer to God.

Peace.

~BX