Deborah Originally Posted by mommaslittlehelper in mommaslittlehelper's CircleWhen life gets tough, I make soup. When something bad happens to someone I love and I don't know what to do, I make them soup. I am hesitant to say,"I'll pray for you." I worry that it will somehow offend their sensibilities in some way. Maybe I have become overly politically correct. I consider myself to be a quietly spiritual person. Okay, maybe I'm not that self-aware since, I'm an ordained minister. I perform marriages and I'm getting a degree in holistic ministry.In any event, I don't really talk about my faith. I don't want to be a "faith pusher." But I find that at times I error on the other side. I say stuff like,"Please send me good vibes." When what I really want to ask is please pray for me. In my mind, prayer and mediation are completely different. For me, mediation is passive it allows me time to empty out all my mental muck. To just sit and be still. Prayer on the other hand, is active, it's about me having a conversation with God.Yes, I said God. I have been studying world religions, for me, religion was created by man to explain God. God, prayer and spirituality, in my mind, have nothing to do with religion. God is not religion and religion is not God. Religion is a map, a marker, a guideline to help us find God. But unfortunately, religion is managed and implemented by man, and man has this tendency to just screw things up.Getting back to my need to make soup, my friend is burying her baby this week and the only thing I could think to ask her is what kind of soup can I make you? It is the second child she has lost. I can't even begin to imagine. I just can't. Nor can I imagine the devastation that is happening in Haiti either. The only way I have come to terms with any of this, besides making soup, is that suffering is a part of the human condition. And I choose to believe that God isn't behind the death of an infant or the earth quaking, but that God is behind Doctors Without Boarders, or the people who have donated money or in making soup. Yeah, for me, God is in the soup.
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7 months ago - Comment
Deborah Amelia, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this post.
7 months ago
Becki Oh, I am so, so sorry for your friend. Words cannot express. God is definitely in the soup you are making for her, and I hope it warms her.
7 months ago