Last night I sat down and wrote a list of all the things I have disagreed with ..sometimes silently sometimes loudly over the years, some of these are.. Yoga, mediation, hypnosis (all of which I have done, enjoyed and benefited from and none of which have cleared my mind) Oral sex (no comment ) vasectomy.. yep that's done. Tattoos.. both got those. Women and trousers, and other dress codes (ie a brother must wear a jacket to do the microphone... even when it's mid July) the list was much longer, but it suddenly struck me, that all these things were rules of men, NONE of them are in the bible. (Ok I know tattoos are, but I feel the scripture is misinterpreted, it was referring to marks of other gods) Why did it never occur to me before? I've NEVER understood the birthday thing and it killed me as a child, and even when my boys were little and I was practising I always made a special day out of their birthday, ie going out for a meal or something, it just feels WRONG not to! Christmas I can well understand and happily live without.
On another note.. got stopped by a Mormon in the town today, he asked me if I was religious.. I said "I used to be a JW".. and as I walked away I almost hopped skipped and jumped, first time I've said it out loud, and it felt GOOD.
Poppy xx