Splash of Spirit: To readers: request for dialog

Monday, April 2, 2007

To readers: request for dialog

Starting into my second month with this blog, I am reflecting on what a gift it is to me every time someone reads it. Reading it completes the circuitry of the desire for connection, healing, and oneness which rises up as my voice and demands that I give it expression. I can't know who's reading, but whenever I hear back that someone has, I feel a deep gratitude.

This is my invitation to you to let me know, and to enter into dialog about things that are important to you. I have given my e-mail in the contact info to the left of the text here. If you prefer more distance than that, or are comfortable with a public forum, please contact me by sending a comment to this post. I will respond.

Thanks very much for reading!

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About this blog

This blog was originally entitled “Healing Through Prayer.” I launched it from a need to share my thoughts, but also in the hope of it helping to start my career as a Christian Science practitioner - one who heals through prayer. I would still love for such a career to develop, but my need now is to humbly accept what is given me, which is the desire to write. I’m counting on prayer to guide me in all the hard work required to develop myself as a writer.

I took a long pause from this blog while I was figuring that out. Now I have returned, and have revised the title to make it more true. I have been disabused of the initial hope that this blog would be wildly popular. Since you’re here reading, welcome. I deeply appreciate your presence.

Further Explanation

I am a Christian Scientist. I am not hiding it, although it seems there are many who will write me off at those words - some unnamed fear prompting in them a shuddered response, “I don’t want to read anything about that.”

Christians have been told we are a cult. Others have been told, and repeat with great indignation, that we irresponsibly neglect ourselves and our children in our unwillingness to make sacrifices at the altar of “modern medicine.” It becomes tempting to hide my affiliation so that people will be open-minded enough to listen.

I am a Christian Scientist, but this blog is not an explication of official views. Indeed, the phrase “official views” would make it sound like someone else - officials or collectives - does our thinking for us (an oxymoronic proposition). My attraction to Christian Science, besides the irresistible light of Spirit, has been the opportunity to soar in thought, to explore ideas that open windows of possibility.

I believe that we all are one, and our experience of Spirit is shared. Each one’s uplift energizes our collective rise to the consciousness of joy and power which is our natural state. I try to speak in a language that anyone can grasp, of things anyone can use, whether or not they have donned a mantle of faith and adopted articles of belief. I don’t think these make any difference to Spirit.

There are many generous people who share their experience of Christian Science - not official views but accounts which serve to guide seekers toward the understanding which is accompanied by healing. You can find some of these at ChristianScience.com and jsh.christianscience.com/.

This blog contains my ideas and experiences relating to Spirit. I share them because I must. My goal is to be honest and clear. My hope is that it will bring inspiration.