UU Christian small group
Today was the monthly meeting of our UU Christian circle. I love this group more and more each month. It is so spiritually and emotionally fulfilling. It is so important to each of us that except for the death of the father of one member, none of us has ever missed a meeting. We move heaven and earth to be together each month.
The meeting today came after a 2 1/2 hour semi-annual congregational meeting wherein we had to approve the upcoming year's annual budget and make some big amendments. It was very long and tension-filled but the budget passed in the way that we wanted it to and that made us happy. But we couldn't deny that the politics left a bad taste in our mouths. It feels disappointing when fellow church members can't agree on issues that some of us feel ought to be givens.
I mention all that only to frame our states of mind before today's Christian circle. We had a new person join us today and she and another member of the circle aren't members of our church so we had to fill them in on what we'd just left. In a way it was good because we all affirmed that we really needed each other. Sometimes you need to reach out to that small circle of friends who you trust with your spirituality and we needed to reach out to each other.
Two ladies told us about Healing Touch which is basically a spiritual experience, an act of prayer, if you will, in which one or two people pray and move their hands over your body to help release the bad energy that may be trapped there. It could sound either like a fundamentalist laying on of hands (as in casting out demons). Or it could sound like some new age hippie dippie kind of thing. I really don't think it was like either of those. It was about people loving and caring for each other, sending positive thoughts out into the universe on that person's behalf, helping them relax, and spending 20 minutes focusing totally on them. It is such a loving and giving thing. Two of us each had a treatment and I have to say that afterward I felt closer to these women who are already my friends. It is a very intimate experience. There is so much isolation in our daily lives, that this act of connecting with people we care about and who care about us was so extremely spiritually moving. I feel like I've had my spiritual battery charged and I'm ready to head into the new week recharged.
The meeting today came after a 2 1/2 hour semi-annual congregational meeting wherein we had to approve the upcoming year's annual budget and make some big amendments. It was very long and tension-filled but the budget passed in the way that we wanted it to and that made us happy. But we couldn't deny that the politics left a bad taste in our mouths. It feels disappointing when fellow church members can't agree on issues that some of us feel ought to be givens.
I mention all that only to frame our states of mind before today's Christian circle. We had a new person join us today and she and another member of the circle aren't members of our church so we had to fill them in on what we'd just left. In a way it was good because we all affirmed that we really needed each other. Sometimes you need to reach out to that small circle of friends who you trust with your spirituality and we needed to reach out to each other.
Two ladies told us about Healing Touch which is basically a spiritual experience, an act of prayer, if you will, in which one or two people pray and move their hands over your body to help release the bad energy that may be trapped there. It could sound either like a fundamentalist laying on of hands (as in casting out demons). Or it could sound like some new age hippie dippie kind of thing. I really don't think it was like either of those. It was about people loving and caring for each other, sending positive thoughts out into the universe on that person's behalf, helping them relax, and spending 20 minutes focusing totally on them. It is such a loving and giving thing. Two of us each had a treatment and I have to say that afterward I felt closer to these women who are already my friends. It is a very intimate experience. There is so much isolation in our daily lives, that this act of connecting with people we care about and who care about us was so extremely spiritually moving. I feel like I've had my spiritual battery charged and I'm ready to head into the new week recharged.
Labels: Church Relations, My Spiritual Search, UU Christian Circle
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